Scandi defensive is bad

LOL... your funny!

The Scandinavian is perfectly playable.

LLOL

Actually it is quite good.

I'd say it's nuanced. I have played both the 2...,Qxd5 and the 2...,Nf6 variations of the Centre Counter (yes, I'm old enough to call it that) with success. Mainly pre-1995, I admit. It became harder to find planless opponents to bamboozle after game 14 of the Kasparov-Anand World Championship* match. I find it quite awkward to play against as White. But objectively neither version seems especially ace and I'm starting to score rather well against it. As H. L. Mencken so sagely put it, "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong".

*This is neither the time nor the place to get into the legitimacy of titles in the "split World Championship years", I use the term merely for convenience and no opinion one way or the other should be read into that usage.