Hill's duplicity is on full display in this kind of article. Let's contrast these sentences, the basis for which surely came from Hill himself:
Hill and his colleagues have 14 ivory-billed sightings so far. They have audio recordings, photos of likely tree cavities. They even have video, but Hill doesn't think it's good enough to show the world.
These birds aren't going anywhere.
...with this sentence:
I'm perfectly content to call our evidence 'highly suggestive,' rather than 'definitive...
This is a voice of faith, not of science. He knows what he knows, he just can't prove it yet. No amount of negative evidence will ever sway him. Science in the Choctawhatchee is dead.
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"I'm perfectly content to call our evidence 'highly suggestive,' rather than 'definitive,' " Hill writes. "These birds aren't going anywhere."
The evidence isn't good enough to be definitive, but it is good enough to pedal books stating as a fact that the birds are there.
They have... photos of likely tree cavities.
And the sasquatch searchers have photos of flattened areas in the grass that were "likely made by Bigfoot."
"I'm perfectly content to call our evidence 'highly suggestive,' rather than 'definitive,' " Hill writes. "These birds aren't going anywhere."
Classic Hillcrow.
See how it works? Out of one side of his mouth, he admits that in 60+ years of desperate trying, nobody has credibly documented a living bird.
Out of the other side of his mouth, he refers to the birds as if they exist.
Is he schizophrenic? A liar? Or simply sloppy?
Who cares! He has a red hair and a childlike sense of wonder about the natural world. Isn't it great to alive?
"it is good enough to pedal books"
I've never heard of a book with pedals
Hill's duplicity is on full display in this kind of article. Let's contrast these sentences, the basis for which surely came from Hill himself:
Hill and his colleagues have 14 ivory-billed sightings so far. They have audio recordings, photos of likely tree cavities. They even have video, but Hill doesn't think it's good enough to show the world.
These birds aren't going anywhere.
...with this sentence:
I'm perfectly content to call our evidence 'highly suggestive,' rather than 'definitive...
This is a voice of faith, not of science. He knows what he knows, he just can't prove it yet. No amount of negative evidence will ever sway him. Science in the Choctawhatchee is dead.
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