Quote of the day

Splitter: But there's no lab animal model for it.
Talaat: In the vet school, cows are considered lab animals.

(This was in the middle of a discussion about how to determine whether or not Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis is the aetiologic agent of Crohn's disease in humans. If you click on the first link, the September 1 news article is the review paper that was under discussion. We kinda came to the conclusion that the only definitive way to determine this would be to kidnap a bunch of preschoolers and force-feed them MAP-tainted milk.)