tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164804243040726299.post417572262898344073..comments2024-03-19T06:40:22.220-04:00Comments on The EEB & Flow: Taking stock of exotic species in the new wild: Acknowledging the good and the bad.*Marc Cadottehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08335319636148357534noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164804243040726299.post-28282016713953075482017-10-16T14:13:03.480-04:002017-10-16T14:13:03.480-04:00Helen, thank you for taking time to read the post....Helen, thank you for taking time to read the post. I would encourage to read it again. I am not a dogmatist e.g., "I do not wish to undermine the reality that exotics can play important roles in urban landscapes, or that some ecologists and conservation biologists do indeed harbour suspicions of exotics and subscribe to unrealistic notions of purely native landscapes. Exotic policy is at the confluence of culture, science, economics and politics, and this is why the science is so valuable (Sandiford et al. 2014)." -from the blog post.<br /><br />I have always endeavoured to do the science, and Pearce undermines our ability to do that. The question about this book is not whether invasive species are good or bad, but that we adequately evaluate pros and cons, costs and benefits, and Pearce's treatment is wholly unbalanced, his premises and evidence are not in line with what we know. <br /><br />As someone who has criticized their own ideas/papers in publications, I find Planck's quote a simplistic and an untrue assesment of the nature of knowledge. Marc Cadottehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335319636148357534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164804243040726299.post-48850650574357202312017-10-16T11:33:11.755-04:002017-10-16T11:33:11.755-04:00This is an unfair assessment, and very much one-si...This is an unfair assessment, and very much one-sided - you are doing the same thing that you accused Pearce of doing. Instead of defending entrenched academic view and people's wounded ego, wouldn't it be better to see how you can incorporate what he brought up as being true to your work, and ignore the rest?<br /><br />Let's not prove time and time again that Max Planck was right when he said this:<br />"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."<br /><br />We don't have the luxury of time to mess with our planet in the wrong way.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06279523455292911056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3164804243040726299.post-10921392096336303962016-05-02T19:13:57.426-04:002016-05-02T19:13:57.426-04:00When Pearce has enemies like you he hardly seems t...When Pearce has enemies like you he hardly seems to need friends.Michael Marshall https://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.com