Hi Dan, you said "Ian, I didn't realize I was being casual." The casualness was, as you admitted yourself, dropping in the unqualified "over 50%" figure (which later you said "articles recently that claimed the "over 50%" figure I gave but that may or may not be correct"
And the casual rhetorical trick of dropping "mad cow" in parethesis after CWD, when it's a different disease (from BSE / HVCJD) ... albeit in the same class. And you were of course (again as you admitted) just tossing these ideas into a thread where it was a side issue - which is what made my ears prick-up. The rhetorical exaggeration is precisley the stuff (crying wolf) that causes people to discount and ignore what looks like a very real threat - I agree with you. The real stroy makes "scary" reading as I said already (I lived through the UK BSE / HVJCD episode). Better not treated casually as we'd agree. Ian moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
