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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 11/07/2007 : 16:00:04
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While I find this interesting, at the same time I have to wonder if maybe there isn't something more worthwhile they could have been researching?
I mean, it just seems trivial compared to some of the ills we face (that also cause our appearance to change for the worse, that might draw the interest of a cosmetics company). I get it that there is big money in treatments for dandruff and eczema...
Maybe its just me.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/07/2007 : 19:29:16 [Permalink]
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Numbers Ricky, numbers. I've never heard of this fungus as a pathogen before.
How many infants die from that every year or are even sick with it? Not many from what little data I have been able to find.
My point was not to knock the research. I think its interesting.
I'm just saying that sequencing the genome of the dandruf fungus is seems trivial in the face of H5N1, HIV, TB, MRSA, and so on.
So perhaps we, as a nation, need to step back and reconsider our priorities.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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