> For an "apparent" scientific person

 MvdV> Nothing "apparent" about it. I have the credentials.

yeah, so what... i know too many people with sheepskins on their walls that
just do not and cannot do what those sheepskins say they can do... an
electronics technician (sheepskin says so!), for example, who solders
joints by making musket balls on the joint and who can't read a logic probe
or an ocilliscope... yeah, sheepskins make great wall coverings but prove
nothing other than one having spent time in school and getting a passing
grade on the subject matter presented...

there's a lot more to life than "credentials" and wall coverings... 

)\/(ark