Reply #12: Without even clicking on the link, I could speculate that it's this sort

[American liberal]

of "science" that drives the Bush agenda of the "haves and have mores." Most of the uneducated proletariates (sp) are expendable under the mantle of globalization. It's that sort of attitude that would justify Bush's lack of response to Katrina. Other than getting limbs shot off in the military, there's no use for the masses anymore. Automation has done away with the need for assembly line workers. Besides, poor people are more likely to be Democrats. No doubt, the have mores would be delighted if 90% of us went the way of the Dodo bird. That sort of thinking also (put on the tin foil hats for this one, folks) would go a looooooooong way toward explaining why a large percentage of the black underclass is in prison, hooked on crack, or somewher in between. (Remember the stories that have been circulating around since the '80s about the CIA's involvement in introducing crack and automatic weapons to the ghetto? The have mores want us to self-destruct.) One of these days I'll have to follow the paper trail of this "distinguished" scientist. I'm sure it would lead to very interesting places (and people).