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From: sukieferret
Date: 2002-06-04 10:08:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Cancers and illness in our ferrets, 2

>Am I waiting for the "scientific" world to tell me something new?
>NO... If we waited around on them to "prove" or "do studies" we
>would not be where we are today with ferret care.

On this point of your's I have to strongly disagree. Having been
around when people were fumbling in the dark with numerous
hypotheses bases on no real studies I can tell you that there
was a least as much stuff that didn't hold as did. What made the
difference was actual study, and the willingness of ferret people
to donate funds toward continuing such studies.

I see your point that we often have to do thing based upon our
own best guesses, but I am very strongly of the opinion it was
sceintific work which got ferret medical care to where it is today,
haivng seen what the world was like before it.