[rvdavis]

> When that something is a "think tank", adults understand that what it produces...

> That indisputable fact alone means you have no business invoking science -- all you're doing is literally standing up to defend the world's most entrenched, powerful interests. Someone actually interested in science, unlike yourself, would, on principle, be skeptical toward purveyors of "science" that never comes to different conclusions no matter the problem domain.

I think you could have made your point without the ad hominem.

[harrumph]

>I think you could have made your point without the ad hominem.

Fair enough. I hope that everybody involved will survive the encounter.