[SoWestLep] Mexico expands monarch butterfly habitat

[Ron Gatrelle]

Paul,
    I wish it was just simply a philosophical difference. It is agendaism
and worse.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Cherubini" <cherubini at mindspring.com>
To: <patfoley at csus.edu>
Cc: <SoWestLep at egroups.com>; <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [SoWestLep] Mexico expands monarch butterfly habitat


> Pat Foley wrote:
>
> > That these dangers [of butterfly releases] are not confirmed
> > yet in the case of monarch should be a source of anxious relief by
> > butterfly enthusiasts, not gloating by the pro-releasers
>
> Yes it is fashionable in our first world academic culture to
> carry the precautionary principle to an extreme as in "we shouldn't
> believe there's any adverse effect until we have a good
> hypothesis for its mechanism."
>
> But the belief that we should not think all is OK when all is OK
> because it may not be...is philosophy, not science.
>
> Paul Cherubini, Placerville, Calif.
>
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