Go back through the thread, the issue was evidence (and lack thereof) for feather evolution and feathers on dinosaurs.
Martin (Kansas State University), Ostrom (paleontologist, Yale University), Ruben (professor of zoology, Oregon State University), Olson (curator of birds at the National Museum of Natural History) all agree with Feduccia and his team relative to Sinosauroptyrex ,specifically, not having feathers and/or "protofeathers", in general, not being feathers at all.
Olson wrote, "...protofeathers exist only as a theoretical construct..."
Is this fine group of scientists marginalizing themselves as well?
Only in VadeRetro's/Dimensio's little world (and at Darwin Central, of course).
A short bio of Olson. It starts nice. Here's how it ends.
In the past decade Olson has gained a degree of notoreity for his bitter opposition to the theropod origin of birds, including an unprofessional and scathing open letter to National Geographic which has presented a treasure trove of quotes to mine for creationists.Getting called unprofessional is something like getting marginalized, maybe. A degree of notoriety is good if you're a Howard Stern school radio personality but it can make you sort of marginal in science. It's a picture of a man going from mainstream to crackpot.