To: DejaJude
The arrogance of scientists. The natives have known about them, and most likely eaten them, for centuries probably but yet they have now been labeled a “new” species because some jackass scientist happened to stumble over them.
6 posted on
04/11/2010 8:42:00 AM PDT by
calex59
To: calex59
To: calex59
Just a way to get grant money....
To: calex59
The natives have known about them, and most likely eaten them, for centuries probably but yet they have now been labeled a “new” species because some jackass scientist happened to stumble over them Pretty much. If some guy at Haaarvard don't know about it, it's not a species. The local witch doctor begs to differ.
To: calex59
They don’t exist until “Science” makes its pronouncements.
The experience of the natives wasn’t peer reviewed.
22 posted on
04/11/2010 9:11:28 AM PDT by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: calex59
Yeah, the scientific community got bitatawa in their Varanus with this “discovery”....
31 posted on
04/11/2010 9:34:06 AM PDT by
mikrofon
(Science!)
To: calex59
The arrogance of scientists. The natives have known about them, and most likely eaten them, for centuries probably but yet they have now been labeled a “new” species because some jackass scientist happened to stumble over them.Remark from an elderly American Indian many years ago when stories of Sasquatch were starting to come out of the northwest: "Oh, the white man is finally getting around to that".
Quoted from memory, source Ivan T. Sanderson's "Abominable Snowmen; Legend Come To Life".
45 posted on
04/11/2010 12:32:18 PM PDT by
JimRed
(To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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