tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-788408007777952492.post2936981001175436776..comments2023-03-25T09:39:48.786-04:00Comments on The Huguenot Corsair: What About Vampires?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-788408007777952492.post-89100620666277160282009-10-03T22:52:53.696-04:002009-10-03T22:52:53.696-04:00'So let us drive a stake through all this over...'So let us drive a stake through all this overblown speculation about 4 million year old apeman sex - at least until we invent a time machine that would allow us to go back and observe things directly. All we have is one skeleton and a few other remains. Which by itself is fascinating, but which by itself tells us little.'<br /><br />I heartily agree. While I hate most of Mark Twain's writing, I often quote his similar criticism of scientific dogma:<br /><br />'There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.'<br /><br />I recently read "Sperm Wars," (Robin Baker, ISBN 1-85702-356-0) <br />which could be criticized as heaping far too many conjectures on a very slender basis of factual observations, but I found its theories to be very plausible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com