I do beg to differ a bit. Lawyers are not trained to think more 'sharply'
than are scientists. Scientists are trained to think even sharper than
lawyers. I will say that with the exception of patent lawyers I haven't met
many who really understood science and Phil is a great example of not
understanding science.
Before you pull out your 'my-daughter-is-a-lawyer' again, my wife is a
paralegal, her father is a judge (who when I married was a prominent
attorney), my brother-in-law is a lawyer, so I have them all around me and
know their abilities vis-a-vis the sciences. As a scientist, they can't
shine shoes. As legal beagles, they are fantastic and I can't shine shoes!
glenn
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