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From: arndt@lymph.DEC
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Subject: Lame?  LAME???
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 15:35:23 EST
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Lew Mammel, Jr. (whome I admire otherwise, what with his training and all-
sorry I misspelled your name last time Lew!) says:

 Re. the lump on my hip, "Apparently believing this to mean we can "will"
anatomical change."  

Now Lew, you may be the victim of a speed reading course!  The POINT of the
'lame' satire you panned was that I DIDN'T 'will' the lump!!!!!  It happened
to me because of my behavior of traveling in a car - just like the man said!

Look, the old idea that you cut off a rat's tail enough times and it produces
rats with no tails is bunk, right??  Well, if the rat bit off his own tail,
even if it helped him survive - in a cosmic lab where naughty things were
done to rats that could be lifted out of their cages by their tails - seems
only to be saying the same thing.  It's another example of 'evolution
science' running wild!  If I throw a rat against the wall (splat) enough
times, will it one day, before it dies, bounce back???  (Sounds like a good
idea for a government grant for some smart grad assistant, eh?)

It is not at all clear how BEHAVIOR in individuals or even groups brings about
'changes' in the body.  Changes that can be passed on to future generations!
The idea that there are 'boundries' even for genetic changes, is an idea whose
time has come!

LAME!!!  Say, guy - do better!

Lov ya,

Ken Arndt