You can kill a randomly selected sample first to get the average calcium-bone figures.
However this is not the only claim of biological transmutation... On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 2:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > In reply to Jones Beene's message of Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:36:58 -0700: > Hi, > [snip] > >This CANR reaction was to become Kervran’s spark of inventive inquiry year > >later … and think for a moment - about a species that demands calcium for > >survival (egg shells) and then see whether or not, in careful experiment, > >this species can actually make it when necessary, due to deprived > >conditions. Yes, it is the obvious tactic to take, in retrospect, but why > >has this work been neglected by the mainstream? Plus, the experimental > >method of Vauquelin was reported to be as stringent as Lavoisier's … yet > >there is little information online, on the actual experiments. A > conspiracy > >in itself. > [snip] > I'm a little leery of purported bio-transmutations that are supposed to > produce > Calcium. It is much easier for the chicken to leach some of the Ca from > it's > bones to produce an eggshell, as a temporary measure. The bones can then be > restored at a later time when more Ca is available in it's diet. > > IOW a proper accounting would need to made of how much Ca was present both > before and after, but this can't be done without killing the chicken, and > you > can't kill the chicken twice. > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html > >

