In this commentary on John Raven's "Diving in Where Angels Fear to Tread: Pre-Requisites to Evidence-Based Interventions," Tommy MacKay discusses three examples that illustrate Raven's tendency to overstate or at least to over-simplify the issues raised in his paper and to present various views, approaches, or interventions as being essentially all evil rather than recognising a more nuanced position. [For "Diving in Where Angels Fear to Tread: Pre-Requisites to Evidence-Based Interventions," see EJ1248321.]