You must have skipped your Behavior and Social Psych requirements... if you had not you might realize that one or two stupid comments doth not a cross section of a comunity make, dear Horatio...
There are many insightful and intelligent discussions both on this and other forums that are peppered with fertilizer... to write off the potetial for the whole for the spots on the apple is silly.
Hope you dont go, but if you do, go well.