🚀 go-pugleaf

michelle r. tribe wrote:
> 
> Steve Barnard (steve@megafauna.com) wrote:
> 
> > These prions are disease organisms that can hardly be said to be alive.
> > They aren't even as advanced as viruses, not by a long shot.  They also
> > cause "scabies" in sheep and are known to cause a brain disease in
> > cannabilistic human societies.
> 
> Science has  has never, ever proven a cannabilistic human society to have
> existed.  There are theories and sketchy evidence, but nothing to prove it
> "beyond a shadow of a doubt."
> 
> ---
> Michelle R. Tribe
> http://chat.carleton.ca/~mrtribe
> 
> "There are times when you have
> to choose between being human
> and having good taste."
>               --Bertolt Brecht

This is total baloney.  Cannabilism is not uncommon in aboriginal 
societies.  It's typically ritualistic.  Sometimes people eat their dead 
relatives.  Sometimes they eat people from other tribes killed in 
battle.  It happens even today.

The "laughing disease" was peculiar because it showed up mainly in 
women.  It turns out that the men got the choice pieces (isn't that 
typical) while the women had to be content with things like viscera and 
brains.  The brains are the tissue that carry the disease.

	Steve Barnard