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To: AAABEST; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; alfons; amom; AndreaZingg; Anonymous2; ApesForEvolution; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

2 posted on 11/25/2003 10:04:04 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: farmfriend
Well... I can sure tell your "posting strike" is over! You are certainly a prolific poster of these bizzare EnvironMental stories and I thank you for keeping my blood pressure at such elevated levels! (grinning through clenched teeth with neck veins bulging!!!)

My eyes are bloodshot from reading these and I've become fully desensitized to the interests of these creeple people! You've got me confused with someone who actually gives a chit until these people get behind stopping illegal immigration by the people who pronounce it "chit!!!"

4 posted on 11/25/2003 10:27:32 PM PST by SierraWasp (Like, hey man, SHIFT_HAPPENS!!! Besides, who wants to be SHIFTLESS???)
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To: farmfriend
I'd like to be added. Thanks.
6 posted on 11/25/2003 10:51:04 PM PST by Post Toasties
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To: farmfriend
The so called "environmentalists" are the chief dissemenators of junk science. They're guilty of polluting the spiritual environment with their frauds.

These crackpots would be funny except for the suffering they cause so many people. DDT is essentially harmless to humans, plant and animal life when properly used. Banning it costs the lives every year of thousands of victims of malaria.

Their nonsense up at Klamath Falls cost hundreds of farm families their livelihoods and wrecked the economy in the area.

Science that's based on ideology rather than measurable facts is "junk science." Junk science harnessed in the name of some fuzzy ideology even has a name of it's own 'Lysenkoism.' :

Lysenkoism refers to an episode in Russian science featuring a non-scientific peasant plant-breeder named Trofim Denisovich Lysenko [1898-1976].

It was due to Lysenko's efforts that many real scientists, those who were geneticists or who rejected Lamarckism in favor of natural selection, were sent to the gulags or simply disappeared from the USSR. Lysenko rose to dominance at a 1948 conference in Russia where he delivered a passionate address denouncing Mendelian thought as "reactionary and decadent" and declared such thinkers to be "enemies of the Soviet people" (Gardner 1957). He also announced that his speech had been approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Scientists either groveled, writing public letters confessing the errors of their way and the righteousness of the wisdom of the Party, or they were dismissed. Some were sent to labor camps. Some were never heard from again.

Under Lysenko's guidance, science was guided not by the most likely theories, backed by appropriately controlled experiments, but by the desired ideology. Science was practiced in the service of the State, or more precisely, in the service of ideology. The results were predictable: the steady deterioration of Soviet biology. Lysenko's methods were not condemned by the Soviet scientific community until 1965, more than a decade after Stalin's death.

Lysenkoism has indeed come to the USA. One can only hope that genuine science will come to the rescue of the public before it's too late.
9 posted on 11/26/2003 12:20:59 AM PST by Grim
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To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!!
10 posted on 11/26/2003 3:08:08 AM PST by E.G.C.
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