Dear Dr Bill, i wasn't complaining, just commenting that somehow, again and again, anatomy, especially sexual anatomy comes up as a topic, and it takes a long while for it to be called a yart.

i would also speculate, that what ever people in the past new about whales, they were perfectly happy "beliveing" that the sourse of oil was a teste, and not a brain case.

oil executives "believe" that oil can be pumped with out any enviromental damage.. and tobacco company executives
"believe" that cigarette don't cause cancer or other health problems.. and lots of people "believed" that you could just keep investing in any dot com that came down the pike and make a fortune..

Usually, there is a reason for people to believe what they do, nowdays, its almost always an economic reason, but what ever the reason, whalers might have believed the brain case wasn't-- but was something else..