Beauty and Ugliness and Science

[Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX]

A respected colleague commented off line about some ugliness on our
venerable discussion group.  This prompted me to share with you the
following perspective: Beauty and ugliness are ultimately in the eye of the
beholder. All I see is real people sharing their views with others.
Similarly there are differing views about what constitutes scientific
evidence for a taxonomic decision and even differing views of what science
is.  I am 'arrogant' enough to unabashadly share my views but humble enough
to realize that my views are just my views and they are not any better than
any other views by virtue of some of them being grounded in science; or at
least my view of science.  I continue to think that a lot of the debate on
butterfly taxonomy will need to be handled with the understanding that there
is more than empirical data or particular definitions of science at play.
Or maybe we can make progress by supplementing the biological science with
some behavioural science; just a thought.
 
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Norbert Kondla  P.Biol., RPBio.
Forest Ecosystem Specialist, Ministry of Environment
845 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 1H3
Phone 250-365-8610
Mailto:Norbert.Kondla at gems3.gov.bc.ca
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca
 
 
 
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