Fwd) Re: Prof Rafterys
Pat Jones (pjjones@worldnet.att.net)
Tue, 24 Feb 1998 19:29:10 +0000
The journal SCIENCE has a web link at http://www.sciencemag.org.
The issue mentioned below is February 13, 1998.
PJ
> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:58:19 -0700
> To: Stan Nangle <stan@voyager.ie>
> From: Ed Sparling <esparlin@ceres.agsci.colostate.edu>
> Subject: Re: Prof Rafterys
> Cc: sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu
>
> If you have access to the American Journal, SCIENCE, the current issue
> (approx Feb 18), has 3 items directly relevant :
>
> 1. A nice essay by a German biologist reminding us of the 30 year old
> warning (by a group of biomedical scientists) about the effects of
> routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock.
>
> 2. An article by ecologists explaining evidence & some consequences of
> global nitrification of ecosystems.
>
> 3. A letter to the editor from someone in the Genetics Dept at the U.
> of Wisconsin (Madison) reacting to an article by a Swiss scientist who
> had used rhetoric similar (but more informed) to Raferty's. The
> writer of the letter is presumably a faculty member, in which case he
> has strong credentials (good dept at a good school). The letter is
> well written and thoughtful. Example of a scientist saying "...not so
> fast!"
>
> SCIENCE is the journal of the American Assoc. for the Advancement of
> Science--very much the mainstream.
>
> Keep Rafterys' feet to the fire!
> Ed Sparling
> Dept of Ag and Resource Econ
> B-311 Clark Blg
> Colorado State University
> Ft Collins, CO 80523
>
> Phone 970-491-6946
> Fax 970-491-2067
>
>
Pat Jones
pjjones@worldnet.att.net
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