User blog comment:Lancer1289/Gamespot Releases Reader's Choices/@comment-1886172-20110113040720/@comment-217683-20110113044930

But that's what I've been trying to say: You're not looking at it in terms of the story. You're bringing in your own personal biases and allowing that to skew it one way or the other. If you are already negatively predisposed towards something, of course you won't like it. As you pointed out, there are already methods which can place someone into a state that could be confused for zombie-like, and I hate to tell you, but while that African powder may not be magic, it sure wasn't the product of science either.

As for the belief that science can create zombies... well, personally I find that pretty naive, and I'll believe it when I see it. They also said science was going to put us into deep space and have us living on the moon oh... about twenty years ago, now. And scientists have been wrong just about as often as they've been right lately. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not going all Luddite here, just saying that it'll take more than techno-babble and blind faith in science to convince me that the impossible is possible. Now, putting myself into the story and looking at it from the POV of the character, that I can do.