[extropy-chat] Microbes Produce Miniature Electrical Wires

[Dirk Bruere]

Terry W. Colvin wrote:

>Stuart,
>
>The following excerpt from another mailing list brings up the hoary idea
>that some microbiologists are meeting untimely and conspiratorial deaths.
>Any comments?
>
>Terry
>
>     So far 88 microbiologists seem to have died under more-or-less
>suspicious circumstances in the United States, the United Kingdom and
>Western Europe (combined).
>
>     But even such a relatively small population center as Greater
>Cincinnati, Ohio, has four or five universities and a consortium of
>hospitals, and thus employs THOUSANDS of microbiologists. Moreover,
>the universities and in-house hospital educational programs graduate
>hundreds more new microbiologists every year. And, again,  that's
>merely one relatively minor population area.
>
>     So if there is indeed a plot or conspiracy to wipe out
>microbiologists, or even to seriously thin their ranks, it strikes me
>as a remarkably ineffective one.
>
Only if they are 'random' - not if they were all working in a narrowly 
defined sub-discipline.

-- 
Dirk

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