@DarenHeidgerken Yes, we have heard a few quotes of people saying these things. But we aren’t surprised. We have been working on this for years, and done years ago we were talking with a biologist at the forefront of arguments over how to do taxonomy, and he told us this: /1
@DarenHeidgerken 2/ That we are on the right track in our arguments, and that we should aim our arguments at younger scientists who are less biased, because we will never be able to convince the “old guard” who are already locked into their biases for life. He gave the example of Ernst Mayr,…
@DarenHeidgerken 3/…who was a famous biologist and one of the main opponents of cladistics in biological taxonomy. Our advisor told us that Mayr “died convinced he was right” although now the world has moved on and Mayr’s view lost out. This is how it works. We are all very poor thinkers, and…
@DarenHeidgerken 4/…science still moves forward successfully because it is a community effort that is largely self-correcting. But it can be slow. Max Planck supposedly said “science progresses one funeral at a time.” Hopefully we will see progress on “planet” faster than this, though.🤞🙂
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