--- In cybalist@..., "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...> wrote:
> Someone's not talking like an objective anthropologist.
> Perhaps there are high levels of mercury in
> Northern Ireland, eh?
[snip]
> - gLeN
>
Northern Ireland is one of the places I can't come up with a heavy
metal connection. But of course I've come up with something else:
http://www.celiac.com/history.html
having noted the connection between heavy metal poisoning and
intolerance of certain foods (a link says the article is
archeologically dated).
Another coincidental fact: Before the potato famine, the Irish lived
on potatoes and no bread. The economics of this was seen as a threat
to the English working man. So when the potato famine came the
British authorities saw this as an opportunity to teach the Irish to
eat bread and exported grain to Ireland as relief. The Irish died in
droves. Question is: at that time, given the diet of the Irish, how
large a percentage of Old European gluten intolerants survived in
Ireland? Did the Irish die not of starvation, but of gluten
intolerance?
As to dementia: I am too dim to see how smearing your cell with
excrement and starving yourself to death can further the Irish cause.
I mean, not that I'm either for or against it, but it just seems
counter-productive to me?
Expecting an attack by irate Irish,
Torsten