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Or is that too simple?

Yup, Purdey's hypothesis' are very convincing. See;
http://www.purdeyenvironment.com/Med%20Hyp%202nd.htm

only if you don't actually look at the facts.

Specifically?

Specifically, Jim?

A lot of work has been done since Mark Purdey put forward his hypothesis
and he has rather been left behind in a lot of areas.

Such as?

do your homework,

You do you're homework. Back up your empty claims properly, if you can.

read something more up to date.

try (http://www.pubmedcentral.gov/).

Nice link, nothing countering, disproving, or superceding
Purdey's work and hypotheses though.

There's a reference to Purdey's work;

'It has been suggested that BSE is caused by either abnormal prions (PrPsc)
(11, 12) or exposure to organophosphates (13) and belongs to the group of
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) together with kuru,
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and scrapie, conditions in which autoantibodies
to brain neurofilaments have been described by Gajdusek's group (2, 15).

13. Purdey, M. 1994. Are organophosphate pesticides involved in the
causation of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)? Hypothesis
based upon literature review and limited trials on BSE cattle. J. Nutr.
Med. 4:43-82


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