Hey
But, with issues such as these, it will probably be much the same throughout time, I think what one has to do is lookup the studies himself and come to his own conclusions based on the "facts".
"Facts" as you say it, is really just a word, fact to someone may not be fact to someone else and "facts" can always be false and presented as truth, truths can change, and so do people, so just put together your own facts from the information you can gather and use your intuition as your guide, the more you do the stronger it becomes, my intuition has never steered me wrong in my life, so that inner knowing to me, is my fact.
So I can't exactly say I'll go to middle ground with you, because I know what my facts are, but I will say that I respect anyone with a strong enough confidence to voice thier opinion because more than likely that is thier truth, but having said that doesnt mean I have to talk to em nicely