germs

How should produce from the grocery store be washed? Usually I just run fruit and vegetables under the tap, but it occurred to me that maybe that's not enough. I'm no germaphobe, and I generally don't buy organic, but I'm wondering if a quick water rinse is enough for something like an apple...

So, my missus gives me some Dettol hand wash, you know, the type that you just squeeze on and rub around without rinsing off, that claims to kill 99.99% of germs, and I'm wondering: is it cynical to wonder whether the 0.01% are the dangerous ones, and in any case wouldn't it be better to wash...

This link leads you to a post on the Stormfront forum where a moderator have extracted the article from Matt Nuenke. I haven't recieved my ex of the book by Jared Diamond yet, therefore I have refrained from responding to this post, awaiting further investigation. I would appreciate to hear...

I'm being made to read a few chapter's of Jared Diamond's "Guns Germs and Steel" in a literature course (We're only reading the chapters that are relevant to animal sacrifice.) Anyone care to share their opinions on Diamond or this book? Just curious to see what other people think.

FYI: three part series premieres July 11th Guns, Germs and Steel on PBS website

During the course of discussing some new and emerging diseases on the face of the planet earth, including unexplainable disorders, somebody furnished me with the links to two papers proposing that some emergent diseases at least may be extraterrestrial. I checked "exobiology" in the forums...