that's true -- in the end, 99% choose a side. Majority opinion
   doesn't always mean its absolute truth, but it can. In the end,
   you choose what works for you. I just know that media, for
   example, LOVES to exaggerate things, especially numbers.
   Example: I followed the Serbian war closely in the late 90s. I
   heard the numbers of dead grow higher and higher and higher -
   and the loudest were those ...saying 10,000, 100,000. But a few
   years later, when a spanish investigation team actually counted
   - it was still a horrific number - something like 2300 massacred
   - but the numbers 10,000 or 100,000 is what stuck in people's
   minds. Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) said it best, "There are
   three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics". So I
   take numbers with a grain of salt - but for accounts of history,
   I'd say that what we hear is probably close ... "