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From: arf@chinet.chi.il.us (Jack Schmidling)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Mosquitoes etc.
Keywords: thanks
Message-ID: <9397@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Aug 89 17:10:14 GMT
Organization: Chinet - Chicago, Ill.
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pol/e7 
 
Article 2417 (1 more) in sci.bio: 
From: binkley@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jon Binkley) 
Subject: Re: What's the Why and How of Mosquito Bites? 
 
> I don't see where Russell changed the subject.  He states   
>very clearly that the only diseases which mosquitoes can   
>transmit are ones which also infect the mosquito.  
>  
>ARF says:  
>  
>I doubt that he said that.  If he did, he is wrong.  Did you   
>ever see mosquito die of malaria?  
 
>I'm amazed by this guy.  How could someone so bloody ignorant be 
so arrogant? 
 
ARF says: 
 
Why don't you try answering the question instead of an inane personal attack? 
 
(Russell Turpin) says: 
 
>Who, pray tell, is manufacturing data?  The major fabrication I 
see is the specious implication that something is scientific 
evidence only if it is garnered by controlled experiment, and 
that observation and statistical analysis do not count.  
 
>Since Galen....... 
 
ARF says: 
 
Excellent and persuasive stuff.  Thank you for your input. 
 
>Perhaps it is because ARF is confused about the nature of 
scientific work that he is so suspicious of the way scientists 
are studying AIDS.  
 
My problem with the scientists is that most of the ones working on AIDS work  
for Big Brother and I have monumental suspicions of any information coming  
out of the government. 
 
Another problem I have with the scientists on this issue is the political  
nature of it.  There is a politically active group in this country that has  
succeded in the fight for civil rights of the AIDS virus.  No other deadly  
disease has ever been coddled and dealt with in the way that AIDS has.   
Obviously, if the scientist happens to belong to that politically active  
group, his results are suspect. 
 
                     ......................... 
 
I would like to thank everyone who participated in this discussion for their  
inputs.  I think the politics probably prevent it from going much farther  
until or unless the big experiment is performed or simulated.  I certainly  
learned a lot but will still avoid botanizing in the forest preserves on  
weekends. 
 
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