And, I once heard that 76.2% of the people make up statistics to prove a point....or was it 74.3? :) You know,most statistics "don't impress me much". (I guess I have gotten this accross in some of my posts).

I respect research...but, I take fuzzy, biased (funded by an interest group) or non peer reviewed research, much like I take opinion and theories from any vested viewpoint...as just what they are, and then I add a quite a few grains of salt, to balance it out. One persons guess is often just as good as the next persons, regardless of the degree of personal experience they bring forward to boost legitimacy. We all can be right in our guesses and we all can also be wrong, regardless of who we hang out with.

I have posted links from many different perspectives, some that make sense, some that don't hold water under close examination. I do it to add perspective and stimulate discussion and hopefully to move this puzzling issue a bit forward. We likely won't solve the problem (and even if we did, who would listen)...but, most of us feel a degree of concern over it(and yes, even emotion...which like others, I get caught up on at times),though we may differ as to our views on many related matters.

On most of these matters, I can honestly say, I don't know.