Fwd: Re: NY Times Butterflying Article

[Patrick Foley]

Apparently in American intellectual life, the last refuge of the
scoundrel is no longer patriotism, but antiintellectualism.

Patrick Foley
patfoley at csus.edu

Paul Cherubini wrote:

> I think intellectual elitism also figures into to this
> anti-collector/pinner, anti-breeder/releaser sentiment
> that NABA is promoting; i.e. - that recreational collectors
> and commercial breeders are entomology's lowlifes.
>
> Sue Halpern, author of the new Monarch book "Four Wings
> and a Prayer" said exactly that on page 127 of her book:
>
> "There were some on D-plex list who thought the scientists were
> ganging up on Paul Cherubini and whipping him around with their
> degrees, bullying him into a version of science to which he didn't
> subscribe.  The commercial breeders in particular were aggrieved
> on his behalf, but they tended to lurk at the margins since their
> activities were even more reviled than Cherubini's own transfer
> "experiments."  They were entomology's lowlifes, people who treated
> butterflies as --in Bob Pyle's disparaging phrase -- "biodegradable
> balloons".  And now Cherubini had joined their ranks, picking off
> chrysalids whereever he could find them, hatching out the butterflies
> and selling them fresh to breeders."
>
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