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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (220557)	2/23/2007 4:25:52 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Mikey isn't smarter than me. I grew up with med students and residents and interns and docs. Believe me, they aren't any smarter than I am. They just applied themselves more in college, and got into med school, and I goofed around and ended up in physiology. Free speech demos and anti-war demos and baseball were more important than studying. If my medical director was smarter than I am, he'd be teaching me about Starling's Law of the Capillary, about albumin, and about the effects of starvation on patients. But I'm teaching him. And it's taken 3 or 4 years to get him to the point where he has one more dot to connect. I may get there before one of us retires. And Harvard? The school that wants to be Cal? That's nice.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (220557)	2/24/2007 4:42:47 PM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

Michael Chrichton is no doubt enough of a scientist to count for conservative science purposes, at least when he's willing to spout the "truth" in the alternative universe sense. Having written Jurassic Park or gone to med school doesn't exactly make him an authority in this particular field within the reality based community, though. People keep spewing this particular branch of conservative "science", I'll have to dig up the petition that counts for "science" on the WSJ editorial page. Sign it, and you too can be a "scientist".