Whoops. I think the charges that I have made ad hominem attacks stem from a misfired joke in a previous posting. I wish to clear up what I meant. When I wrote that parents would pluck their children off the street whenever Hoffman approached, I was attempting to show the extreme conclusions which can be reached about *anyone* using Hoffman's methods of drawing inferences and making suggestions. If you can take a few scraps of evidence and publish a paper saying that SLC was bisexual, you could quite possibly publish a paper 'showing' that Hoffman was (fill in the blank), or could do the same with me, or any stranger. Robert Dagnall