Akhenaten: Science and philosophy are inextricably linked. The more you post here the more obvious it is you aren’t very well educated. Birds eat live insects, that potentially carry viruses, which is why we use insecticides, to kill the insects and the viruses they carry. These viruses are bad for birds and bad for people. Further you completely lose any small semblance of credibility you might have had, wherein a real intellectual midget here refers to an indisputable intellectual giant in Dr. Zubrin, (not Rubin), as an “intellectual midget”. As for your potato famine, the proximate causes of the blight should be viewed in the larger picture of the over dependence on the potato mono culture. But I feel I’m casting my pearl before swine here. Not only are you woefully ignorant, and intellectually defective, your conduct on this board is contemptible. You’re not worthy of respect. Unless that changes, I’m requesting you refrain from being a continuing unwanted distraction here any further.