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An open letter from the perplexed to the media:
Why are you so timid about this story? This is a great tale for a journalist to show how power and influence corrupt science but it gets played like a dispute about molecular physics or something ...
The headline demonstrates that you don't understand the story. This isn't about whether the bird exists - this is about whether ANYONE has provided proof that the bird exists.
Fitz et al. keep saying that when they present proof it isn't the same as the other sightings ... their's was, after all "peer reviewed" ...
Fitz et all has the same fuzzy video, same testimony? Same everything ... just no meeting at the Harvard Club with the editor of Science.
And now ... let me see if I got this right ... John Fitzpatrick's brother Jim, who runs a nature center in MN, is out on the lecture curcuit at bird clubs in PA talking about the time he saw an IBWO in AR ... ?
This just gets better and better ... you can't make this stuff up.
From the article:
"Gallagher understands the skepticism; "it feels too good to be true." But he contends that scientists' unwillingness to believe - and investigate - may have hurt the bird's chances of having its habitat protected.
Farmers are now offering some fields, cleared decades ago in the soybean boom, for conservation. Since 1982, says Jay Harrod, of the Nature Conservancy in Little Rock, 50,000 acres of habitat have been reforested."
Consider that last sentence. Doesn't the use of the word 'now' somehow imply that they wouldn't have if there were no IBWO. That is a total crock. Southeastern landowners have been targeted for decades for restoration of the bottomlands. The IBWO had/has absolutely NOTHING to do with that. TNC recently sold the USFWS a few million dollars worth of reforested bottomlands (trees, oh say, 4 ft tall) and the USFWS used "Ivory-bill habitat' in the press release. Yeah, maybe in 100 years and maybe if there are still birds. This latest smear/objuscation by the Cornell folks is just plain embarrassing.
make that obfuscation please
I don't even understand how you Skeptics can disbelieve any more. At this point, you'd have to believe that mass hysteria has taken over my side.
Just remember what the good witch told Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz".
"You just have to believe and you'll get back home to Kansas."
Yes, Skeptics.... believe, believe, believe.....
Signed,
The TB
This Cornell Spin Machine is a juggernaut. They will sail on until the plug is pulled and the ship goes down. There is a statement in this puff piece that Cornell has paid for searches, which is probably not true. Best guess is that it is done with grants from the Feds. Bet that Cornell does nothing to correct that.
Gallagher's assertion that naysayers cost us the ivory-bill is unfounded and wrong. The ivory-bill went down from logging and, to a minor part, from collecting. Say Tim, you're not suggesting that today's naysayers are going to hamper recover of the IBWO are you. Jeepers, we might give that some credence if only you'd, um, find one.
These guys are actually being paid for all of these talks!
The TB said"
Just remember what the good witch told Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz".
"You just have to believe and you'll get back home to Kansas."
Signed,
The TB
I remeneber well! And your are 100% right, but in the end it was all in a dream this happen & it was make believe when reality was reviled in the end. Just some figment of someones dreams!
It was all make believe, but it made for a good story even though it was not real!
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