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LIKE MY 1981 ANALYSIS of Social Security, my 1994 analysis of viral gender wasn�t hard to understand once an explanation was given. That ease of understanding prompted plagiarism of my 1981 analysis by Alan Greenspan; and that plagiarism, in turn, prompted my sedulous effort to safeguard my intellectual property rights with respect to the later viral gender matter.
In early 2003, I had a phone conversation with Dr. Olaf Schneewind, Chair of the Microbiology Department at the University of Chicago. At that time Dr. Schneewind agreed with me that all viruses might be considered male. His exact statement was, "I hadn't thought of that. You could say that." To this day there's no effort to deny the fact of what he said. I wrote down his exact words. And I have phone records as well as e-mails to and from Dr. Schneewind. EXPLANATION of why all viruses are male: In the non-viral portion of the biological world, when reproduction occurs, the male sex is always the donor of nucleic acid. Females are always nucleic acid recipients. But viruses themselves are always donors of nucleic acid when reproducing and NEVER recipeints. So every virus is male. And this virus-gender statement is not only true, but significant. I won�t try to explain that significance here, but can do so quite readily. So, for a second time in my life I had something original to communicate to my fellow humans. As already mentioned, in both cases the matter wasn�t hard to grasp once I'd provided the explanation. But in January 2006, Dr. Schneewind hung up when I informed him--in my deeply masculine (but cheerfully outgoing, and friendly) voice--who was calling. One hates to loose an old friend, especially a fellow Nordic cutup. I�ll now speculate briefly as to his motives for being so uncommunicative. CONTINUE |