Re: Hamburgers by Crock...Doug Aitken of Schlumberger

[Doug Aitken <daitken@sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com>]

At 12:53 PM 6/12/2003 -0400, you wrote:

> Thanks to Doug
>
> Aitken of Schlumberger for this lead in the field of research on
>
> hamburgers. 
>
>
> I'll follow that lead up around noon.
>
> Thanks again for the direction, wisdom and scientific
>
> insite...



You gotta lighten up, Lou!

As you stepped into a nest of ornery critters, you have to expect some

venom. 

;~)

And I guess you have raised the hackles of quite a few by admitting that

your first reaction to dissent on this list was to implement one of those

sleazy "search for all the stuff no one should have a right to know,

but is available through the the internet if you buy this software"

invasion of privacy programs that are touted through junk mail from time

to time.......

.... and then throwing a few slurs out, apparently to show your

"moral superiority"....

While the list-members tried to do a search for your scientific

credentials.......


I was not being particularly venomous. But I have an in-built suspicion

of motives of those who try to link illness to one particular source.


I guess that this is forced on me by the particular litigious aspect of

society on this side of the pond (yes, I am a darn foreigner, working for

a company whose origins are French - enough to have be blackballed by

many..... <G>). And an abysmal inability to accept personal

responsibility which goes hand-in-hand with this....


As for a crock of hamburgers, a serious study of the density of fast food

joints in the Niagara area, combined with the per-capita consumption of

their prime product (results obviously sorted by age, gender and

ethnicity), versus some other geographic areas, might yield some trends

on obesity and/or incidence of heart disease and (some)

cancers......


You did, after all, state "Since I am located in an area with this

elevated rate of illness (not me-thank goodness), I am interested in

finding or eliminating any and all possibilities."


Happy to help direct your valuable research.....


BTW: the opinions I express are my own only. I certainly would not want

to have Schlumberger associated with this particular thread.....

So I will sign off as an private citizen...... and not respond further to

this thread....


Doug Aitken