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Flesheaters need to worry about contacting Avian Flu (bird-fowl to humans)
since also eating fowl. Eating fowl is not strengthening ones immune system,
but tearing it down. While, many are going Vegan and prefer to keep their
immune system built up to prevent more health problems.
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From: "Hank Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 2:59 PM
Subject: [pnews-views] Re: Animal Testing is Both Cruel and Necessary
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> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, James a. Mulick, PhD wrote:
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>> Dawkins does call himself an ethologist but he works as an evolutionary
>> theorist much of the time, and he and Dennett are two of my favorite
>> (work
>> related) authors. I thought Dennett was a cognitive psychologist or
>> philosopher though.
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>
> You are probably right. My memory is not as good as yours, I'm sure, and
> it has been awhile since I read anything by him. Dawkins, however is
> someone I read often, even picking up his books a second and third time.
> With some I must read them more than once but others are much easier and I
> think written that way (like pop-science), like his latest tome, the
> Ancestor's Tale. What a great book that one is. I will undoubtedly read it
> again even though it was so thoroughly understandable the first time - and
> entertaining and informative - so I have really slowed down about my
> ordering any new books because there simply isn't enough time to read
> them. I don't know how you find the time to even listen to Malloy. I had
> to choose between Malloy and some others (I like Sam Seder), and decided
> to listen to Thom Hartmann and I can't get through everything.
>
> Sorry about that run-on paragraph but I forget to stop. (g). Hartmann is
> my favorite. When I first listened to him I didn't like the sound of his
> voice and his easy demeanor didn't seem forceful enough for my own manner
> but the more I listened to his analysis the more impressed I got. He is
> clearly, IMO, the most intellectual of the bunch. In fact I have never
> listened to any talk host as informed as he is. He might as well teach;
> but that is what he is doing, isn't he? But he isn't as didactic as
> Springer tries to be and the two or three times I could force myself to
> turn on Springer I kept seeing him on that sleeze show he does and he just
> doesn't strike me as anything but a "liberal" leaning opportunist.
>
> Thom is also not a socialist, of course, but he is rational and I have
> learned a lot from him.
>
> I have also learned a lot from Dawkins, from Ridley and others. I liked
> the book I read about the race between NIH and Celera to get the Human
> genome sequenced and the importance of the fruit fly for genetic
> experimentation.
>
> I want to keep this short. Like you, I prefer this medium for short screen
> fulls of conversation. Many make the mistake of writing a book and trying
> to put it into an e-mail. A mailing list is best suited for short one or
> two item conversations leaving the WEB for articles and books for book
> length indepth analysis (with lots and lots of footnotes <g>).
>
> Best,
>
> Hank
>
> [rest deleted because I didn't have time to comment on it. will later in
> another e-mail]
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> P.S. By the way, I can find time to listen to Hartmann and other things
> because I do it when I walk and jog. It is the perfect time for me to
> listen and it keeps me exercising for hours at a time. I think now at my
> age I probably do a minimum of 3 hours a day of walking/jogging (but I
> rarely sprint anymore).. So while exercising my body I am also exercising
> my brain <g>.
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