Well, as someone somewhere pointed out, Walter is IN FACT a mad scientist, as opposed to just a nefarious test-tube jockey. I have been accused of not believing in science (because I believe in God) but I do, like all sane people. I suspect, however, that it has reached that highly expensive technological point where it does as much harm as it eliminates.

But this is entertainment TV, and in the grand tradition of old English majors I prefer fantasy. Some of the crazy ideas in Fringe are indeed entertaining.