>   In both cases, these an added
> stress that the controls are NOT subjected to.   When Larry Atkins was
>  still
> alive, he and I both had long discussions about the short cuts being taken
> by many investigators which often had as great or greater effect than the
> chemical itself.
>

Too often the researcher is the problem.  In a study of why frogs are
dissappearing, the culprit was a virus and the only known way it was
spreading was with the researchers as the carriers.

Same with the Hawaiian crow. It was on a downward spiral so was studied to
literal death. Seems like it immediately moves when man is around so was
driven from its habitat by researchers. A landowner protected them by not
allowing researchers on his property. Fought tooth and nail but finally kept
the researchers away and the crows thrived.

With Imid, it appears that some of the researchers are too involved in the
desired outcome, a not unknown byproduct of human nature, but not good
science.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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