Amp3, I've certainly heard of PMRC (aka the "Washington Wives") and Frederic Wertham. PMRC is a classic example of the Rakolta effect. No self respecting kid will listen to a CD that doesn't have a PMRC warning label, so the PMRC has dramatically increased the sales of the very things they oppose. Wertham recanted in the 70's, and started pushing a "comic books are tue art" point of view. Basically, he went in whatever direction made him money on the lecture circuit. That's the real problem, whenever a relatively affluent group is rallying about something, there's always a money hungry pop psychologist (or other scientist) ready to cash in on the books and lectures. This adds an air of legitimacy to all sorts of strange causes. And the rest of the problem is "power grabbers". 90% (my estimate) of the people involved with most of these "save this or that" causes do not care about what the cause is trying to save, they just see it as a way of manipulating a bunch of people's lives and gaining some power.