"usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> An unemployed, self-crippled ex-greasemonkey and a reflexologist who
> infect these newsgroups with their ignorance of science and the scientific
> method claim on the basis of a study by Sneddon, et al, that fish
> experience pain. These two misinformed charlatans have refused to accept
> any other study, suggesting that the study of Sneddon, et al, trumps every
> other one in the history of scientific research.

Fish are vertebrates and have a vertebrate nervous system. They don't feel
much pain in their mouths, this is true, but if they didn't feel pain at
all, they wouldn't live very long.