On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 21:41:40 -0000, "Jim Webster"
Jim@feeswerve.spam.co.uk> wrote:


The fact that there aren't millions of dead has always been taken as a
personal insult by some people, Torsten was holding out for hundreds of
thousands just a year or so back (bet that produces a mocking comment when
you repost it:-))


It must be fun to be thought of as a goof for so long in a forum.

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:36:42 -0000, "Jim Webster"
Jim@feeswerve.spam.co.uk> wrote:


"Torsten Brinch" <iaotb@inet.uni2.dk> wrote in message
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On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:13:29 -0500, Boron Elgar

"3. In the light of recent estimates of the incidence of scrapie in
sheep in the UK, and of further considerations of the properties of
scrapie agents, it is no longer possible to exclude an unmodified
scrapie agent as the agent responsible for BSE."

I realise English is not Torstens first language but that doesn't say
that
Scrapie is the probable cause of BSE, merely that it cannot be said it
isn't
a cause. Hardly a definitive proof

Postulating that I have said that scrapie is the probable origin is just
worthless. You must be able to quote me for saying it (And you can't).

Del Crow <delcrow@uniserve.com> writes
#### Well, Jim, I really expected that the carcases would NOT be
tested. This thing is many things to many people, agricultural health,
human health, and political dynamite. If the presence of manganese
instead of copper on the prions is the common cause, Human and Cow,
(the one proveable argument) then it would show in virtually every
animal exposed to the high Mn level in the polluted areas if it was
the target of the tests applied "Helpfully"...but how to do it?
Pointless testing.

Clueless reply to my post.

I don;t think you have the faintest idea about what you are talking
about. Merely parroting stuff you mindlessly read elsewhere.