Rubystars wrote:
> "usual suspect" > wrote in message
> news >
>>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.
>
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> 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.

Lifespans are pretty relative, but most fish don't live very long. Their
own mothers prey upon them.