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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3921939" data-attributes="member: 114">Thanks Wulf, a good response. It reminds me of a problem we see all too easily in our UK news broadcasts nowadays - there is almost a mantra which says "there are two sides to every argument" and even if one side is represented by 95% of scientific opinion, they still give equal airtime to whack-jobs who oppose the idea "to give a balanced view".Bah.However, to come back to internet-land... I know that my enjoyment of and participation in internet forums is largely governed by how civil they are, how 'adult' they are in terms of conversation (this is the mythical 'adult' as in sensible, logical, self-controlled; I remember being shocked when I eventually reached adulthood that the behaviour of adults was actually not much removed from that of the schoolyard as it turned out. But that is another story).When it comes down to it, (a) is the one that I'm most concerned about seeing here. If someone can present a stupid opinion in a civil way, and other people point out the fallacies in their  position in a civil way, then I'm a happy cute rodent of choice.Cheers</blockquote>