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NB: Please keep .. more Letters to the Editor “sizes Letters to the Editor more husband because her body was | cles could have possibly been pre- | But remember, there was no man- | Alien Intervention Theory used to dealing with his genetic | sent on this medically cleaned and | ganese on the above silver wire ear Duncan: John Anthony material, although they were not | sterilised silver wire. Yet two | that successfully transmitted prion West's letter in response to compatible. (Yeah, I know you | people coming into contact with | disease to two people. For those | Lloyd Pye's theory of ET engi- can't believe everything you read | this silver wire developed the | who do not know, prion disease | neering of domestic plants and in those sorts of mags.) prion disease vCJD. existed long before any insecti- | animals, including our species, These articles have led me to | Something was on that silver | cides were invented. That would | makes some astute points about wonder: (a) if transplant recipi- | wire, but it could not have been | seem to quickly rule out insecti- | the principle of Intelligent Design ents reject organs because they | manganese or insecticide or bits of | cide as a cause of prion disease. in evolutionary development and the donor have incompatible | contaminated meat protein cells, Peter Olson, moonbeam@ [9/05]. personalities, and (b) if it would | as the wire was cleaned as clean | earthling.net But I believe West is too dis- be possible to "train" people who | as our medical science can clean . missive of the ET hypothesis, as are waiting for a transplant to | something, and a lot cleaner than Self-Aware Machines Pye is of the former argument. accept the new organ. (Clearly, | the dishes in your sink. The silver tead with extreme fascination The two ideas are not mutually there are major difficulties where | wire was cleaned using multiple the interview with David Adair exclusive, and to get trapped in the donor's identity is not known methods, not just simply washed. by Robert M. Stanley in NEXUS the either/or box does nothing to until an organ becomes available.) So how did that silver wire | 2/05. His description of the | aqvance our comprehension of the Has anyone done any research on | transmit prion disease? Answer: strange ET device at Area Sl as vast sweep of evolution. these issues? . we simply do not know. It would well as his own rocket engine and In 1986, Stuart Litvak and I If someone manages to get pigs | be silly to say we do know or to his genius were spellbinding. to grow human organs, the idea of | suggest insecticide or manganese What was of greatest interest to people taking on pig personalities | ere on the wire. me was the apparent similarity of is quite grotesque. Still, in the By the way, if one inserts a the alien device to a combination case of economic rationalists, it machine and life-form. would result in an improvement. Thave long believed that a com- Erika Ferguson, South puter-controlled device could be Townsville, Queensland, Australia taken over by a spiritual being and could function as a life-form despite the lack of reproductive wrote a definitive book on the Intelligent Design theory of evolu- tion, entitled Toward a New Brain: Evolution and the Human Mind (originally published by Prentice-Hall and available via amazon.com), which dispatched both Creationism and neo- Darwinism. manganese wire into an animal's brain, the animal does not develop prion disease. Also, control rats in a laboratory, fed the same diets as test rats and not exposed to any D* Duncan: It has been pro- insecticide or manganese, © ot capability. All it would take is for] r it ve ne on the void foun posed by Purdy and others | ©°V®OP Pron cisease, While eS" | the machine to have sensation in | ©4U0R OF a teleological model 0 that mad cow disease (MCD, or they do develop Prin ease if | order to be attractive enough for a evolution, based on te dytamie BSE) is caused by excess man- the timest amount o} D-intect- spiritual being to "interiorise" into | 0! COmSclousness self. Althoug! ganese in foods given to cows or, ed material is placed in their | i¢ and control it. Senses equal | We did not include a possible ET alternatively, that MCD or Prion brains. There heed pe no mn self-awareness. If the machine | factor, this would not in any way disease is caused by insecticide | $2%°S¢ OF Insecticide in that | can see, feel, hear, sense its own | detract from the model; in fact it usage. infected material for the prion dis- | functions, etc., then it has the | Could reinforce it. Of course, the Let's look at an experiment that | © to be transmitted. In other capability of becoming self-aware. lack of "empirical evidence" ren- can quickly disprove these ideas. | WOTds, controlled experiments | | suspect that this will be the next | 4etS it "unscientific" in this con- A silver wire was inserted into the | With rats, which exclude man- | qoye! lopment of science. text. And now the neo-Darwinists brain of a woman with undiag- ganese and insecticide, show that Adair's statement that the alien are accusing the ID advocates of nosed prion disease. The silver | Prion disease is still transmitted in | engine appeared to have been | tying to get God in the debate wire was then removed and thor- | the absence of these two proposed | prown rather than manufacture rough the back door! oughly medically washed, | Causes of prion disease. may have hit the nail on the head, | __ Ultimately, as West indicates, scrubbed and completely sterilised Blood-sucking Insects have Our own bodies are extremely | "proof" of phenomena originating by hospital staff. If there was any | been shown to transmit prion dis- | complex devices consisting of from a higher dimension cannot insecticide or manganese on the | €ase, yet Purdy looks at the insec- | many different chemical | be readily accessed, if at all, by wire, it would have been removed | ticide used on those insects, with- | compounds. So are trees. Why consciousness from a lower by the above procedure. out ever looking at the insects | couldn't extremely advanced | dimension. It's the situation of the That silver wire was then | themselves as the mode of trans- genetic engineering produce a | ants and the writing pen: the ants laced into the brain of a healthy mission. Dry wood or drought do spacecraft engine or a complete | came across mysterious markings erson, then removed and washed, | not cause fire: a spark or flame or | spacecraft? on paper, were baffled by the scrubbed and sterilised again. | very high temperature causes fire. | I wish I could be at Area 51 to| mystery until one day they saw This healthy person later devel- | Dry fuel will then fuel that fire, | visit this alien "machine" and | the tip of the pen making contact oped prion disease. After the | but not cause the fire. Similarly, | communicate with it. I feel a | with the paper. Although they had above sterilisation and thorough | high soil manganese levels may | certain amount of sympathy with | no conception of human beings, cleaning, the wire was later placed | fuel prion disease, but will never | it, too, since it is isolated there | some of the ants thought they into the brain of a second healthy | cause it. Manganese does replace | with hostile people who will never | were very close to solving the person. This second healthy per- | copper in prion disease, so supply- | begin to understand it or| mystery... son also developed prion disease. | ing more manganese might make | communicate with it. A. Wayne Senzee, Phoenix, No insecticide or manganese parti- | the disease progress more quickly. John G. Marson, USA Arizona, USA Mad Cow Disease Theory NEXUS +5 DECEMBER 2002 — JANUARY 2003 www.nexusmagazine.com