BrokenFoot: Do you notice how the opposing view to barefoot running doesn't say it's 100% wrong. I don't see the same respect from the Minimalist community / "extremest community".
Well if you draw the lines such that your "extremist community" only includes extremists, you're not going to find too many moderates in that camp!
But if you'd look closer you'd notice there's plenty of us who run in things like skimpy road & XC flats, and believe contemporary trainers are excessive, without insisting anyone who doesn't follow suit is an idiot.