Penance, most of the baiting in this thread has come from Merlin winding up Michael.

I don't think cable sceptics are laughing at the believers. If they are, it's happening the other way just as much.

There are only three ways to resolve this:

(a) The believers and the unbelievers arrange to meet, tooled up, and beat the living daylights out of each other

(b) We have a properly conducted blind test arranged by neutral parties and see who's right

(c) We all forget about it, realising these debates rage periodically on all the forums but never get resolved

I'm in favour of (a).

-- Ian