Until now, my posts have focused almost exclusively on wildlife impacts (real and otherwise) related to predation by cats, a topic I’ll be returning to soon enough. Over the past week or so, however, I’ve been researching the Toxoplasma gondii parasite (another subject that will keep me busy well into the future). As it turns [...]
Browsing the blog archives for July, 2010
30 Jul 10
20 Jul 10
In his most recent post, Michael Hutchins (CEO/Executive Director of The Wildlife Society) once again misses the point…
Michael,
As you might imagine, I was disappointed with your response to my post. It was really just more of the same—a vague defense of the peer-review process, scientific publications, and so forth. Meanwhile, you have yet to dispute [...]
14 Jul 10
“The reason that we have a peer review process is to assess the quality and likely validity of scientific data and their interpretation… One goal of the peer review process is to assess an author’s command of the existing literature and whether or not it is being cited selectively to support the author’s views, without [...]
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Tagged Conservation Biology, Michael Hutchins, peer-review process, Travis Longcore
Tagged Conservation Biology, Michael Hutchins, peer-review process, Travis Longcore
4 Jul 10
Although it’s taken me two months to respond, it took less than two weeks for Vox Felina to come under attack by feral cat/TNR opponent Michael Hutchins, CEO and Executive Director of The Wildlife Society. In his post, Hutchins accuses me of trying to “out-science the scientists,” and refers to my critique of the essay [...]
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