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To: Borges
And I would say its hard to argue with the idea that sex is an object worthy of scientific study.

I would never argue with that. I also wouldn't argue that hypothermia is something we should study. Mengele studied it by keeping Jews in freezing water until they died. In most cases of bad scientific research, the subject is just fine, but the research methods are what's evil.

At its core its not all that diffrent from those old Hollywood biopics about crusaders triumphing over the masses not understanding them they used to make about people like Florenz Ziegfield and Louis Pasteur.

That's what makes the movie so sick. Take Pasteur---here's a guy who said that we should try all these processes to make our lives better, and people said his vaccines would cause people to grow cowpox on their bodies and other hysterical pishposh. Kinsey's detractors say hysterical things like "Just because a lot of prison inmates are homosexual doesn't mean everybody is" and "Adults shouldn't rape children" but they're treated as fearful prudes and Dr. Kinsey is the wonderful hero...

91 posted on 12/02/2004 5:54:21 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (A Freelance Business Writer looking for business.)
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To: Borges
Allow me to make a correction to my post 91. I should have said, I would never argue that we shouldn't study hypothermia.

Of course, you probably figured that out on your own, but these sorts of mistakes bug me when I'm the one who makes them.

93 posted on 12/03/2004 6:43:34 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (A Freelance Business Writer looking for business.)
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