[PornoDoggy]

You raise some interesting and valid questions.

I haven't given much thought to the folks that are interested in the subject just for the sake of knowledge, mostly because I have encountered so few of them - and I'm not so sure that some peole offering that claim are sincere.

I guess I can understand why you would feel "disappointed that the subject has been so thoroughly dismissed" - well, I try, anyway - but you cannot possibly be surprised. 60 years ago in Europe people were moving across the continent in very efficient trains to a horrid fate based in part on studies conducted in the name of this poor, misuderstood field of study. I don't think a lot of hesitation to return to that field of investigation is a bad thing, personally - but then I freely admit that I do hold that whole "all men are created equal" stuff pretty dear.