Magna Est Leps-L

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

WOW! all I can say is wow.  I leave the list for a couple of months and on 
return...Wow, such novel themes popping up!

I just wanted to get in a plug for Leps-L before the Requiem gets turned up, 
and thank everyone behind it, List-owner, technical support, resource donor, 
all the on-line contributors to Lep science and enjoyment, and especially 
those who take the time to answer odd,interesting, smart and dumb questions.  
As as far as I am concerned when I am no longer on earth, I hope there are 
ciber cafes in the afterlife so I can access the archives.  Perhaps a 
decompression chamber too with the outrageous stuff we allput up with, though 
that is not essential.

It is a tribute to Leps-L that I am not even sure who some of these Leps-L 
suppoet Lepsters are.  I sometimes even miss the posts of Paul, Neil & Betty 
Swallocks, Ron's, and on another level where are the Rick M.'s, Anne K.'s and 
others who used to post frequently.  And nice folks like Bob Pyle and Chip 
Taylor, Andy Warren, Charlie Covell, other past and present officers of the 
LepSoc, NABA, etc. (Doug Y., Hans S., Wanda D., etc., etc.)  R.I.P. and at 
your conveniences, Leps-L welcomes you back, though it doesn't really mind or 
matter if you are not here (well, that is probably mostly but not exactly 
true, but I hope I am mostly singing to the choir)!  That is the beauty of 
this ciber niche, it doesn't seem to depend on any one person, group of 
persons, personal, political or religious agenda.  And it almost has an 
active international following.

Three cheers for Leps-L, and its hands off style! (Please don't put this on 
Yahoo, etc., as Peabody(?)'s no-strings attached is a nice policy, vs. one 
day, waking up to: Give us your personal info within 48 hours or we will 
disable your free account and we are now going to bill you anyways, which no 
doubt is being considered for such groups as we chat)

Douglas Dawn
stelenes at pobox.com
Monterrey, Mexico



En un mensaje con fecha 10/21/2002 9:19:58 PM Central Daylight Time, 
gochfeld at EOHSI.RUTGERS.EDU escribe:


> Asunto:Anti-science casts a wider net 
> Fecha:10/21/2002 9:19:58 PM Central Daylight Time
> De:<A HREF="mailto:gochfeld at EOHSI.RUTGERS.EDU">gochfeld at EOHSI.RUTGERS.EDU</A>
> Para:<A HREF="mailto:gatrelle at tils-ttr.org">gatrelle at tils-ttr.org</A>
> CC:<A HREF="mailto:Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca">Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca</A>, <A HREF="mailto:Leps-l at lists.yale.edu">Leps-l at lists.yale.edu</A>
> Enviado por Internet 
> 
> I am troubled by a much larger wave of anti-science activities than merely
> whether I am allowed to net (or bottle) specimens for study.  Two days ago 
> when
> of our staff presented his research results of a funded study in which the 
> main
> result was that he was not allowed to do the study which involved having 
> people
> sniff low levels of capsaicin (the active ingredient in hot pepper) to
> determine whether some have sensitive cough.  OK, I thought, capsaicin is 
> the
> active ingredient in pepper spray, maybe there is some risk.  But we won't
> know.
> 
> 
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