Chris Hill wrote -

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> It doesn't say anywhere in the quoted passage that the bird did > die. You can suspect the worst, and think that if it's not mentioned what happened to the bird, it must be because they >killed it and wanted to conceal that.
> You might be right. But I doubt it.

I wasn't joking, Chris. And the death of the bird would not be the
ultimate outrage. That would be the unbridled hubris of the scientists
involved thinking they could play Auschwitz because they may or may not
find something useful. As I mentioned to another offline, it is with
deep sadness that the rise in science over the past several hundred
years has coincided with a growing lack of respect for other life forms
other than our own.

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Jack Bowling
jbowling at direct.ca