Pogue Mahone:

Being suspicious of "mainstream science as it is currently practiced" is not the same thing as being anti-science. You gotta remember that nowadays the results of scientific studies are often used to shape laws. There is alot of room for abuse and corruption there. Anti-smoking laws and environmental laws are good examples of this.

Sometimes the truths that science reveals are, um, "inconvenient", so to speak.

What about scientific studies of cigarette smoking should we be "suspicious" about? Seems very strange to blame the scientific community for revealing the dangers of second-hand smoke. If you disagree with the legislation, blame the science?