-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: Sunday, October 31, 1999 7:42 PM
Subject: dumb and dumber
>At 09:00 PM 30/10/99 EDT, someone excessively gullible wrote:
>
>>There is a guy by the name of Wliey
>>Brooks who [...] apparently
>>hasn't eaten in years.
>
>Do you think it's just remotely possible that Wliey might be a wliar?
>
>>http://www.breatharian.com/title.html
>
>Oh dear.
>
>Oh dear oh dear oh dear.
>
>One poor cretin in Australia starved to death recently after following this
>evil woman's stupid advice to give up food and just live on divine energy.
>
>Damien Broderick
I see no problem with this. Natural selection at work.