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Oh, sure. I have no doubt that they're venomous. My understanding is that nearly all spiders are venomous. So are honeybees and harvester ants.
The question is, how many spiders actually have venom that can cause any sort of significant injury to humans? I am told it is not exactly the majority. Spider venom is for hunting very small things, like insects, not great big things like humans.

Let's not forget that baby spiders are tiny because they're not full-grown, and therefore are presumably less venomous than the adults of their species. So whatever conceivable threat the adults might have posed, the babies will pose less of one.

I'm pretty sure the warning was there not because there's any real reason to expect baby spiders to present any kind of danger, but because people freak out about spiders and need to be reassured that they won't come and knife them in the back while they sleep. It is towards those people that my outrage is directed, not the guy who made the statement.