Birder's World editorial

From an editorial in the February 2006 issue of Birder's World:

Here are three words that you apparently need courage to state publicly: I. Don't. Know.
Recent events have served up a pair of questions to which the words constitute a reasonable response. The first was seemingly answered in April: Does the Ivory-billed Woodpecker still exist? More than three scientists suggested that the evidence presented fell short of proof, but such sentiments never got a full airing. Emotions ran too strong too fast. Either you believed or you were a spoilsport.

...Does the woodpecker still fly? These are questions of science, not faith - that is, they are answered only with concrete, testable evidence. Until we get that, we just don't know.