No comment on this particular discussion as I don't know anything either way (except that I do think there is some degree of cover-up going on with the amalgams based on my experience of trying to get answers) but I agree with you Tom that sometimes our view of the world and other things is distorted for some reason (prejudice, experience, fear, narrow mindedness, selfishness). I think this applies to all of us, though, in some way, in some situation. I doubt there is a truly objective person alive.