Tom: >....snip... All the filth diseases of the last century >went away with cleanliness, except one: smallpox, the only one we immunized >against! Sorry, Tom, that isn't correct. I invite you to check with CDC here in Atlanta, 1-404-639-3534. Such a broad and inaccurate statement could lead readers to underestimate such killers as Salmonella and pathogenic E.coli, to name two very common diseases of filth, and the statement about smallpox would dangerously lead readers to believe that this killer was loosed on the world because of innoculations, which fallacy requires but a glance at statistics to erase---this killer is still virtually eradicated, only a pocket has erupted again, because of stupidity. To fear the benefit of innoculations because of the (yes, real) rare adverse reaction is to retreat from a healthy community to the dark ages. Perhaps your brief note on this subject during the lecture reminded you of a fuller discussion, but the note itself as presented, I maintain, is dangerous to our health. It is not necessary to falsely condemn workable, productive medical fact in order to launch a controversial theory; in fact, it is counterproductive. I am trying hard, after a career in medical technology, to open my mind to these new and surely better approaches to health--depending as they do on what we ingest, breathe--surely a better way?? But for crying out loud, don't throw out the baby with the dishwater, now heah? (as we say in the south!) Pat