[LEPS-L:7881] Re: [SoWestLep] Mexico expands monarch butterfly habitat

Neil Jones Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk
Tue Nov 14 11:01:27 EST 2000


In article <3A0F1F83.C2D04DE8 at csus.edu> patfoley at csus.edu "Patrick Foley" writes:

> Dear Leppers,
> 
>     I believe that the majority of population biologists interested in the
> problem tend to agree with Opler, Glassberg, Pyle and others that there are
> serious potential dangers to butterfly release. That these dangers are not
> confirmed yet in the case of monarch should be a source of anxious relief by
> butterfly enthusiasts, not gloating by the pro-release, pro-pesticide,
> anti-scientists on this list.
>     Most ecologists are environmentalists from bitter experience and careful
> analysis. It is simply not true that ecologists are fudging their data, lying
> about their conclusions or intentionally misleading the public. Certainly,
> ecologists are biased and fallible. Rarely are they the malicious liars that
>  Paul
> Chrubini suggests. If you get your science from Rush Limbaugh and
>  junkscience.com
> you get a distorted view of science.

Indeed "Limbaugh Marxism" is rarely a good place to start.

Nor is a web site supported by people who say that smoking cigarettes is not
addictive.

> 
> Patrick Foley
> patfoley at csus.edu
> 

-- 
Neil Jones- Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk http://www.nwjones.demon.co.uk/
"At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog
National Nature Reserve


 
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