dear all, (esp. N. Marsh + Jan Poloniecki) sorry, i didn't want to criticise Norman Marsh's work, i really appreciate that topics like these are starting to be discussed and i was glad to get some information at all. i have clicked through some of the www-links, found Duesberg's site (http://www.duesberg.com/) where again i found a link to sumeria (http://www.livelinks.com/sumeria/). what i ment with "strange notions" refers to that page, as it seems to belong rather to the realm of religion than to that of science. (i have tried to open the site again, but it doesn't seem to work right now, so i can't comment more explicitly). dietrich alte ------------------------------------------------------------- Dietrich Alte, Diplom-Statistiker Universitaet Greifswald Institut fuer Epidemiologie und Sozialmedizin Organisationszentrum Community Medicine Walther-Rathenau-Str. 48 17487 Greifswald Germany phone +49 (0) 3834 - 86 77 13 fax +49 (0) 3834 - 86 66 84 email [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%