Rex Harrill <[log in to unmask]>
>My last word on the subject: *not at all* (although they can be quite
>beneficial in that regard).

>maximum high quality crop.  Digging the weeds out, as your metaphor demands,
>seems distressingly similar to the AMA's cut, burn, and poison crapola
>normally inflicted on the human body and mind.

Tom:
My last words on this:

you are making a mountain out of a *weedpile*.

The article used "pernicious weeds"  as an allegory = figurative usage.
You don't seem to understand that figurative does not mean exact -- you
instead are upset and seem to be taking it way too seriously.

See my next followup to Walter for general comments.

P.S. I'm not defensive -- just frustrated.

Tom Billings