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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-223--69239508 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Bob, On 19-Jul-11, at 2:31 PM, Bob Farmer wrote: > , and to mention the author's closing suggestion (see Figure 2) that > we insist upon very > high qualities of evidence (carcass, DNA) when the species is expected > to be extirpated, before we take a "sighting" too much to heart. It's an important point. The reason that science is superior to anecdote is that it is based on verifiable, empirical evidence. It's a restrictive requirement, but the result is that what one gets from science is far more useful than what one obtains from anecdote. Cheers! Chris Christopher Majka 6252 Jubilee Rd., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 2G5 c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca It's true we're on the wrong track, but we're compensating for this short-coming by accelerating. - Stanislav Lec --Apple-Mail-223--69239508 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Bob,<div><br><div><div>On = 19-Jul-11, at 2:31 PM, Bob Farmer wrote:</div><br><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div>, and to mention the author's closing suggestion = (see Figure 2) that we insist upon very<br>high qualities of evidence = (carcass, DNA) when the species is expected<br>to be extirpated, before = we take a "sighting" too much to = heart.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div>It's an important = point. The reason that science is superior to anecdote is that it is = based on verifiable, empirical evidence. It's a restrictive requirement, = but the result is that what one gets from science is far more useful = than what one obtains from = anecdote.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div><br></div><div>Chris<= /div><br><br><div apple-content-edited=3D"true"> <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: = auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 14px; "><div>Christopher Majka</div><div>6252 = Jubilee Rd., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 2G5</div><div><a = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca</a></div><= div><br></div><div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: = medium; "><i>It's true we're on the wrong track, but we're compensating = for this short-coming by accelerating</i>. - Stanislav = Lec</span></div></span></div><div><br></div></div></span><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-223--69239508--
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