"...it is really an ad hominem and I don’t think ..."

By no means this was against any specific person (ad hominem) or even a group of people, certainly not against greenland paddle users, into which category I fall once in a while.

My actual target was the habit of ignoring factual basis when making decisions.

50% of respondents in the United States answer "yes" to question "do technology and science create as many problems as they solve?"

The (apparently lost) irony of the last few paragraphs of my post was an offside comment on this frightening general trend in the narrower context of kayaking.