Monarch article in Ft Worth Star-Telegram

[Neil Jones]

jim taylor wrote:
> Paul:
>
> We all knew that would happen. Extrapolating the rate at which 
> monarchs have been lost over the years, I estimate that next year the 
> population will be -14 bugs.
>
> Jim Taylor
Oh boy here we go again. You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. :-)

What is clear is that when ever a scientist expresses concern about 
conservation
 Paul Cherubini, our resident professional exterminator will attack them.
He has a long history of taking things out of context, distorting things,
 repeating the postings of a convicted felon.etc etc ad nauseam.
We get a stream of isolated pictures from the quickdraw wunderkind.
but very little of it makes any sense in a rational scientific way.

Conservationists are concerned at the decline of monarch populations.
They are concerned, reasonably and rationally because their habitat
ois being affected.

Am I the only one who sees that portraying ourselves as a bunch
of unscientific, ignorant, gullible, hill billies does no service in the
eyes of the public to promoting the cause of the study of lepidtopera?

I have no idea if the graph he posted our of context supports his ideas.
It is as usual taken out of  any context that would give it proper meaning.
 I know some of the articles do not, but this is a constant theme.
Conspiratorially seeing things where they do not exist.

Ity just comes over as,
"Them scientists don't know nuthin they is conspirin' to dupe us all"
We get the same lack of perspicacity time and time again.
and as predictably as ever Jim Taylor comes in with one of his
 short posts.;short on thinking, short on content. short on vision.

Google Paul Cherubini's name. On forums with good scientists
on his wild conspiracy theories get laughed at. Frankly, He gives me
the impression that he would swear that the Pope was Jewish if
 he thought it would convince someone of his strange theories
 and there are plenty  of people who agree with me on more
scientific forums.

I have however found an apparent explanation for the poor cognition
of some of the people here. See the abstract below

Neil Jones
neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk
www.butterflyguy.com


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6W4M-4VHS7P7-1&_user=10&_coverDate=06%2F30%2F2009&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1259120269&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=1661fb8707eb2473de4c64e97c170530

Conservatism and cognitive ability




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Lazar Stankov^a 
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Received 17 July 2008; 
revised 7 December 2008; 
accepted 8 December 2008. 
Available online 3 February 2009.


      Abstract

Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated. The 
evidence is based on 1254 community college students and 1600 foreign 
students seeking entry to United States' universities. At the individual 
level of analysis, conservatism scores correlate negatively with SAT, 
Vocabulary, and Analogy test scores. At the national level of analysis, 
conservatism scores correlate negatively with measures of education 
(e.g., gross enrollment at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels) and 
performance on mathematics and reading assessments from the PISA 
(Programme for International Student Assessment) project. They also 
correlate with components of the Failed States Index and several other 
measures of economic and political development of nations. Conservatism 
scores have higher correlations with economic and political measures 
than estimated IQ scores.




 
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