For an an example of a 'to the point' message (which predates email about a century), the Ems Despatch which helped unleash the Franco-Prussian War, is a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emser_Depesche
"lots of dieting fat people die and/or suffer severe health problems" Wasn't there a movie made about that (Super-size Me)? If people are too fat but still under-nourished, it is a problem of an improperly balanced diet, not of quantity of food. I think that there is something more sinister in this study: if obesity can be reduced to viral causes, you can create drugs to cure it, and the drugs companies are going to like that. It also gets people off the hook in terms of taking responsibility for their own destiny: it is the virus, not my eating or lack of exercise that made me fat. And one more thing: obesity is a largely problem of modern, affluent societies; are these viruses recent mutations and geographically restricted? Doesn't make much sense to me.
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For an an example of a 'to the point' message (which predates email about a century), the Ems Despatch which helped unleash the Franco-Prussian War, is a good example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emser_Depesche
The Goon Show (15 March 1954) "The Silent Bugle Player" is the answer
"lots of dieting fat people die and/or suffer severe health problems" Wasn't there a movie made about that (Super-size Me)? If people are too fat but still under-nourished, it is a problem of an improperly balanced diet, not of quantity of food. I think that there is something more sinister in this study: if obesity can be reduced to viral causes, you can create drugs to cure it, and the drugs companies are going to like that. It also gets people off the hook in terms of taking responsibility for their own destiny: it is the virus, not my eating or lack of exercise that made me fat.
And one more thing: obesity is a largely problem of modern, affluent societies; are these viruses recent mutations and geographically restricted? Doesn't make much sense to me.