>What planet are you on? >The antigovernment herds... Your tone is quite disrespectful. Is this really necessary? To answer your question, the article makes

>What planet are you on? >The antigovernment herds... Your tone is quite disrespectful. Is this really necessary? To answer your question, the article makes constant reference to academic work, and while this work is nominally descriptive, it is clear from the nature of the studies that they are part of a program to influence people's actions. I mention government as well because there is no sharp distinction between government policy and academic research, and I wanted to address a broader point in my comment. Both academia and government policy serve a similar high level purpose of furthering certain social goals. If I claim that certain goals are outside of what the government should be interested in, then this applies equally to academic research and government policy.