All views are indeed partial - even when the attempt is to be impartial. I think I learned that in the first week of Sociology.

But I still thank gnu for trying to supply a digest of information that starts from an aim a desire for fact rather than bias.

I think I can use my own judgement to fill in gaps or areas that appear to be missing by the conscious or unconscious choices that gnu may have (I haven't had a chance to look yet).

In our village it is noticeable how many people have already been put off by the group who is trying to push its specific anti- agenda (again they may be dead right or not).

Because most people know very little about it they have very little framework to assess what is being said however well meaning. So noticeably people have reacted by assuming that the views of the group must be extreme or odd. Attendances at meetings has plummeted and the reaction at a local council level is not open and welcoming but defensive because of the one-sidedness of the approach.

Say you were thinking of taking up smoking. You could find a lot of information which would allow you to make a decision on taking it up (I know it is usually a non rational, peer driven thing rather than a rational 'I have looked at the info and am going to take up smoking'). You wouldn't have to rely on an anti-smoking group to get a balanced view of risk