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To: Gladwin
Modern bubonic plague typically needs to reach a high frequency in the rat population before it spills over into the human community via the flea vector.

Here in the US bubonic plague is endemic in the West due to prairie dog populations and their flea vectors. Don't these so-called scientists have anything better to do with our tax dollars than to spend their time trying to debunk accepted science.

13 posted on 04/15/2002 11:52:46 AM PDT by scholar
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To: scholar
Don't these so-called scientists have anything better to do with our tax dollars than to spend their time trying to debunk accepted science.

That's what scientific inquiry is all about...

It was once scientifically accepted that proteins contained the genetic material of heredity, and that DNA was likely just a solvent or something. It wasnt until Watson and Crick in the '50's determined with x-ray crystallography the structure of DNA (the AGCT bases) that DNA could indeed transmit and record a lot of data.

Science is about examining what you "know," and finding out what you only thought you knew.

39 posted on 04/15/2002 12:30:42 PM PDT by jude24
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