[heartwood]

"it seemed to escape notice that the molecular weights of proteins in the Hib B were almost identical to those in peanut"

What in the world have the molecular weights to do with anything? It's the proteins' structure that determines reactions, not their weights.

I mean, carbon monoxide has the same molecular weight as nitrogen, but if the atmosphere we breathed was 78% carbon monoxide, we'd be really really dead.

[GovernmentShrinker]

I don’t think it’s appropriate to bring up scientific points on a thread of this nature.

[ccmay]

What in the world have the molecular weights to do with anything?

It's quite helpful in convincing uneducated morons on urban juries to award multi-million dollar damages against Tha Man on the flimsiest of evidence.

-ccm

[bvw]

Wow, your first sentence sounded like you knew something or other. But you blew it off with the second.

Big molecules are not small molecules. Let me ask you: Just how close, package-size wise, is the Hib B protein to peanut protein?

How do the two proteins mesh up in filter chromatography?