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To: Neeka who wrote (23345)	1/7/2004 3:37:42 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793698

<<Politics can easily set us off on some tangent based on bogus science or cut productive progress off at the knees based on fear or uncertainty. >> I think that is what LB is saying too? I understood LB to be saying the first part, that we need to eschew bogus science. I agreed with that. What I thought I saw in his posts was a tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater, to go the other way and dismiss all that wasn't proven. I've noticed that he seems to have a real thing about environmentalists, in particular. One can get inflamed over environmentalists pushing Kyoto without tossing out what environmental scientists say about mercury and fish. That's why I responded that we need to guard against both bogus scientific claims and overreaction to it.