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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (171845)	10/4/2005 4:26:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

<The concluding statement you took as condescending and impugning you with bigotry or racism wasn't intended that way at all.> That's why I was diffident about suggesting it. But I thought I'd question it anyway as it was a possible conclusion and a normal sort of response [though not from you]. <I especially liked the one that used the incidence of the clap among various races as the benchmark to determine the sexual drive of the various races. Do you think some poor people with poorer access to health care might be more likely to carry that disease and carry it longer? Do you think that people of color in America are more likely to be impoverished? If the answers are "yes" and "yes," then the study based on that benchmark proves little.> I missed that one. I wouldn't draw the same conclusion about sex drive from that bit of information. <Do you think some poor people with poorer access to health care might be more likely to carry that disease and carry it longer? > Yes, since my understanding is that "clap" is treatable with antibiotics. <Do you think that people of color in America are more likely to be impoverished? > Yes, being melanin-rich leads to being money-poor. The excess melanin drains proteins out of their brains, so they aren't so intelligent and can't earn so much money. So it's not strictly the melanin which causes the lack of money, so much as the lack of protein in the brain. However, a test of income vs IQ will show that the melanin-rich who lack the enzymes which drain their brain proteins are not less moneyed than the melanin-deficient of the same intelligence. The mathematically illiterate and women should stop reading now as I'm going to refer to maths. Translated to mathematical terms, there's a better correlation of money with intelligence, than there is of money to melanin. As I've mentioned, I'm not a biological expert, or even amateur biologist, but those brain dissolving enzymes which form melanin are suspicious. I guess Google could give us actual data of melanin content vs income in the USA. And maybe even income vs intelligence. And probably melanin vs intelligence. Google knows a lot of things. So we don't need to guess at the data. But it would be a shame to get the facts and miss my excellent enzyme theory on income distribution. Kidding aside, during my oil days, figuring out the cost of lead poisoning of brains, IQ is very valuable and it was crazy to have lead in gasoline/petrol. There was something like a 0.25 IQ point deficit due to lead in petrol in heavily motorized countries. That doesn't sound much, but when you work out the value of IQ points, it's a LOT. I think there is an excellent chance of a class action suit getting a LOT of money from those who poisoned us all with lead. I wonder how culpable I would be for my part in the process. When I became aware of the problem, I put in a lot of effort to stop it, so I reckon I have a pretty good defence. Governments who allowed lead and lead suppliers who lied about effects are culpable in my opinion. Brains are very valuable. Being brain-crippled is bad, even to a small extent. Melanin is also valuable and you could sell a LOT of it in NZ where melanoma, basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas are rampant in the melanin-deficient. Genetic engineering is going to make a lot of money. People will be able to have brains AND melanin when the genetic engineers get rid of that brain-draining enzyme. The countervailing benefits of lead in gasoline to overcome the drawbacks were smaller. Though I admit I haven't got good data to back that educated guess up. Mqurice