On Sunday, Feb 13, 2005, at 06:28 Asia/Tokyo, Keith Thomas wrote:

>   It would be to be capricious to criticize
> a well-referenced paper on the basis of armchair speculation,
> prejudice or personal anecdote
> when the paper is published in a different realm of discourse.

Sorry Keith, I have to disagree, at least as holds with this forum.
Most of us are not scientists, and my scientific training is all 20
years and more in the past. We are interested in results, and can
directly compare the thoughts in this paper to our own experience.
However fine the theory, if it must hold true in the realm of common
experience.