<thermate2@india.comwrote in message
news:1177267586.738806.321010@b75g2000hsg.googlegr oups.com...
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Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific
career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text
"Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (Taylor & Francis,
New York & London, 2003), and is currently editing a completed book on
global avoidable mortality (numerous articles on this matter can be
found by a simple Google search for "Gideon Polya" and on his
websites:
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Here is the BRILLIANT AND INCISIVE ANALYSIS:
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http://countercurrents.org/polya230407.htm <------
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Dr Polya, we are incredibly proud of you. God Bless you for your
courage.
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Absolute blather.
Anyone who considers this "BRILLIANT AND INCISIVE ANALYSIS" is obviously a
person of rather inferior intellectual ability. Dr. Polya takes the tragic
affair at Virginia Tech, gives it a horrific spin and uses it as
"justification" for a diatribe pushing his own political ends. While he
does present a few awkward truths, he does so from a narrow and highly
prejudiced point of view, slinging non sequiturs in all directions and
violating with wild abandon the fundamental principles of the very academia
from which he purports to come (although, despite his PhD and 37 years of
academic life, he never managed to rise above the rank of Associate
Professor of Biochemistry at a minor Australian college).
But the article does serve a useful purpose. It is a classic and obvious
example of facts being spun to suit a political purpose, as has been almost
everything I've read about this particular tragedy. We've all been
bombarded with it: "We need tighter gun control laws!" "We need more
concealed carry permits!" "We need more access to psychiatric care!" "We
need tougher (pick your favorite) laws!" "We need to lock up every weirdo
on every campus in the country!" And on and on and on, ad nauseum. In the
end, of course, nothing much will happen, which is probably OK. After all,
there hasn't been a major college campus shoot-up in 41 years. Maybe the
system, imperfect as it may be, is working reasonably well...
Jerry
