Brad

The blame the state theory of justification for bad science... personally I don't
like giving lunatics like Thatcher that much responsibility for their actions...

sdv

"Brad McCormick, Ed.D." wrote:

> sdv wrote:
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > The BSE history shows that the scientists involved in the research blindly
> > accepted the theory proposed in 1987 that BSE was spreading into cows in the
> > meat and bone meal. The conclusion of the early theory was that BSE was a form
> > of scrapie (a disease of sheep which they believed could not pass from one
> > species to another... contrary to the evidence they presented). In the 1980s it
> > was already well know that diseases had often jumped the species barrier.
> [snip]
>
> For what it's worth, I talked with a "real Brit" a couple years ago,
> and it was just obvious to him that the reason for the Mad Cow Disease
> problem was that Margaret Thatcher cut funding for cattle inspectors.
>
> I am reminded of an "Albert The Laboratory Rat" cartoon from
> an old New Scientist:
>
> Margaret Thatcher makes the Lab Director "redundant" as a
> cost saving measure, and Albert (the lab rodent, i.e.) gets
> promoted to be the new Lab Director.  Albert hires the
> former Director back as the new lab rat.  The last frame in
> the cartoon shows Albert reclining in his Director's chair,
> popping positive reinforcement cookies with one front paw,
> and pressing a button to deliver electric shocks to the
> new lab rat [former Lab Director] with the other paw.  We
> see the former-Director-become-new-experimental-subject
> writhing in pain thru a [probably one-way mirror...] window.
>
> --
>
> Greetings from Chappaqua NY, home of new United States
> Senator, Hillary Clinton, who, should George W. Bush become President
> of these United States, will hopefully give him as little
> rest as his fellow travelers gave her husband!
>
> Also, should George W become U.S. President, God save the
> English language!
>
> "Yours in discourse..."
>
> +\brad mccormick
>
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