Posted: Oct 09, 2017 1:37 pm
Fallible wrote:Eh? I've got no issue with you, Mr Fish, although I find some of what you say silly. Not all, I've seen you say some interesting stuff too. Mr McC is a bit different, as he goes similarly off piste in pretty much every thread he graces with his presence, and the fantasy motives he creates for his interlocutors are usually pulled directly from his balloon knot and are therefore expectedly shitty and unpleasant. It's another one of those situations where one is left to wonder whether this is deliberate, or beyond his control. I would have kept quiet, only he's interfering with my enjoyment of the thread.
Enough bullshit! I'm not sure you know what you are talking about here. Out of ignorance, RS rejected my statements concerning retroviruses, and, as he has a following (based on his standing in the subject of fossil studies, but not virology), there was a chorus of denunciation of me, instead of him.
Here is a good article on the life-cycle of a typical retrovirus (not necessrily endogenous):
https://web.stanford.edu/group/nolan/_OldWebsite/tutorials/ret_2_lifecyc.html
EDIT: So, Fallible, if you want to jump on a bandwagon. please first make sure its wheels are on correctly!
FURTHER EDIT: Actually, it started when RS thought he knew better than he actually did (about retroviruses), but he never apologised for his error. Instead, I get most of the blame for the argument!