> that would require convincing you that there is quite a bit of fundamental information needed to make those labs useful

Well you don't need to convince me of that since I admit as much in my original post!

> and there was already a great misunderstanding regarding the amount of time chemistry students spend in the lab.

I can only speak to my experience advising dual CS and Chemistry majors. The ratio of lab to class hours for them is 1:2, and worse when you add electives. So that's the basis for my statement. YMMV.