From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 22:16:47 MDT
At 03:27 PM 11/07/00 -0400, Mike wrote with keen 20/20 vision:
>since the advent of health insurance and scientifically based health care,
>the percent of the population with poor eyesight has increased dramatically.
>Such people would have previously died off early due to accident,
predation, or
>battle.
Yep, all those feeble 4-eyed Nobel prize winners and their
spectacle-equipped postdocs would be expunged from the gene pool. What a
pity the uberhealthy have to put up with the presence of those wimps!
Damien Broderick
[the half-blind and asthmatic]
[but at least childless and snipped - phew!]
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