Fwd: Re: NY Times Butterflying Article

[Kondla, Norbert FOR:EX]

And it appears that unwarranted accusations of anitintellectualism can be
used by people who have difficulty with information and opinions that do not
agree with their view of the world. Where is the antiintellectualism in
responding to published drivel??  How does that make one a scoundrel. A
scoundrel to me is the person who takes the cheap shots, not the person who
rises to the bait.

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Foley [mailto:patfoley at csus.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:55 AM
To: monarch at saber.net
Cc: leps-l at lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: NY Times Butterflying Article


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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