"Our obsession with overt sterilisation and cleanliness, our paranoia, is just not helpful," Gilbert told Live Science.
Other publications, including Gizmodo, used the tweet to raise the question: Was this paranoia, or just good practice?
But I, for one, would hesitate to let a paranoia based on nothing more than conjecture shackle the activities of our children and our children's children.
Stage 4, Paranoia: "Is everyone laughing at me?
The folks at what is now Syfy almost certainly never expected what they ended up getting here, as a huge cast of near-unknowns, many of them playing robots, mostly set aside geek talk and dealt instead with the most basic of human concerns: love, fear, courage, paranoia, and despair.