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[TeamsterDem]

169. LOL yeah I bet I can guess some of those words

But you're right, ultimately, because you were making a scientific point, not publishing a dictionary. If anyone's ever read a scientist's notes ... well, spelling mistakes aren't exactly the strangest of happenings. Yet it's their science which is important. So to attack your spelling in a scientific discussion is, well, pathetic.

With respect to South America and of course Mexico which you mentioned in your OP, yes, they live the effects as do we. The difference is that science trumps their debate whereas doubt, cynicism, and money trump ours. Er, maybe not trump, but it certainly has a MUCH larger role here.

And don't forget, nadin, the current discussion about the earthquakes in Ohio as yet another manifestation of corporate money creating doubt about science. I know it's not terribly to-do with your OP, but the fracking in Ohio was found to have "likely contributed to or caused" the earthquakes in Ohio, yet even still people just aren't quite "sold." I described that situation to a friend of mine in Peru just to see what he would say about it: No, he's no a scientist, but I was more seeking which way his cultural leanings would take him. His first question was "aja y qué dicen los científicos?" It seems here that sometimes that question - in English, of course - isn't first on the list. That's sad. We have good science on these things, yet we allow bad science or just pure politics to confound the findings as if there is no consensus when of course there actually is.