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2013-04-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Turtle Species Not Extinct: It Never Existed

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Posted by Fred 2013-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 You get your science for nothing and your chicks for free.

Splitters are almost always motivated by grant pursuit instead of the truth. Scientists in name only. Guess which part of the political spectrum they tend to inhabit?

Posted by no mo uro 2013-04-05 05:38|| 2013-04-05 05:38|| Front Page Top

#2 SINO's? Who knew! /sarc

Posted by Speng White4442 2013-04-05 06:34|| 2013-04-05 06:34|| Front Page Top

#3 They're definitely out there, Speng.

There was a thread here at the 'burg from about ten years ago where I got into it with a former commenter Zenster about the contortions various government agencies went to in order to split cutthroat trout into as many species as possible in order to create as many public sector jobs for "studies" and in order to make the population seem endangered for political purposes. You see this a lot in the environmental and game management community, desire for magic government checks trumping science and common sense.

At NMFS, for example, there are three employees and grant recipients for every groundfish license in the Atlantic region. That means that for every boat that is licensed, there are three hacks regulating. Not only is that bad science, but the math doesn't work, either.

In all these cases the dedication to the scientific method ends at the edge of their anxiety about a guaranteed government paycheck no longer being guaranteed.

And speaking of scientific method....I just read in one of the pop-sci mags that we should now consider abandoning it. Just isn't convenient for certain topics.

SINO's, indeed.

Posted by no mo uro 2013-04-05 08:14|| 2013-04-05 08:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Unfortunately, Pelosios Caliphornesis is still jaw wagging.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-05 08:27|| 2013-04-05 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 In other turtle nuus:

Cashew found in elevator.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-05 08:46|| 2013-04-05 08:46|| Front Page Top

#6 And speaking of scientific method....I just read in one of the pop-sci mags that we should now consider abandoning it. Just isn't convenient for certain topics.

I skimmed that article. It read like the moron had confused the deductive method for the "scientific method" and was just now learning about induction. Morons will be morons, I suppose.

Posted by Mitch H. 2013-04-05 10:56|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2013-04-05 10:56|| Front Page Top

#7 I am working on my Doctorate in Health Administration, hence my posting to Libya in a few weeks.

I read a LOT of journal articles and texts on various subjects related to health care, policy, and medicine. The juvenile and silly processes and logic some of these academic clowns use is worthy of a Pakistani politician.

The worst though of the lot are the "critical theory" crowd who actively work to find discrimination, exploitation of the working class, evil masterplans by the rich under every subject. Their crap is even more sophomoric and rife with inaccuracies and just flat misrepresentation of fact. They are notorious for misquoating and twisting research done by others and they have an amazing talent for overlooking the obvious in pursuit of their Engels, Hegel, Marxist doctrine of exploitation of the working class.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-04-05 13:02|| 2013-04-05 13:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Well that IS good news about Cashew.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-04-05 18:16|| 2013-04-05 18:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Scientists "baffled"...

Posted by tu3031 2013-04-05 21:32|| 2013-04-05 21:32|| Front Page Top

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