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Subject: Lack of invertebrates / house sparrows (was Reed Buntings)
From: Colonel Bloomer
Date: 26/03/04 00:23 GMT Daylight Time
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:20:58 +0000, Mike Humberston
wrote:
Malcolm wrote:
Whereas I, who am I suspect as pleased as you are that some research is
being carried out, remain open-minded :-)
I am certainly pleased that such research is now being performed.
Scepticism does not imply lack of an open mind. In my case it is
simply that I like to see solid evidence for claims which are
made. As I said "scepticism is the proper attitude for a
scientist"; this is a very well established principle in the
scientific world.
I'm also very aware that establishing correlations in the natural
world is very difficult. It is too easy to draw the conclusion
that because variables A & B appear to be correlated then A's
variation must be the result of B's variation when, in fact they
are both being caused by the variation of variable C (which your
study didn't even measure). Ph.D. thesises tend to be like
individual brush strokes in a painting. Each one is a step in
deriving the overall picture but as the work progresses many of
then are covered by further paint as the overall structure of the
picture becomes clearer.
Then you have CONfiguration of unelected bodies, good at finding their
own job-protecting bodies projects, and sustaining their particular
mantras to consider, meanwhile the real painting never gets finished
because someone never wants the paint to dry, not whilst there's a few
bob to be had!
The RSPB have supposedly been looking at sparrow decline for 15 years,
still we know nothing. How strange!
This is interesting as I wrote to the RSPB CEO asking him how they
could spend ?7million pounds plus on advertising and apparently less
than ?2000pounds on finding out why the sparrow is disappearing, and I
asked them to state clearly what they are now doing. I got no answers.
We need to be very careful when with give money to people who promise
the earth. How come RSPB income is on the up and up, yet species and
habitat decline in the UK has been in decline for decades?
Better of spending the money up the pub if you want to protect
wildlife, at least they have a chance in the hop fields.
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- A Letter from the Glasgow Herald
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- "Taking it on" Consultation Paper
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- Conservation Extremism and Barbarity
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- The Conservation Nazis
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- CLIMATE CHANGE: IT'S WORSE THAN YOU THINK
http://spaceforum.co.uk/con-servation/ccc.htm
- Response to the Woodland Trust National Questionnaire 2004
http://spaceforum.co.uk/con-servation/response.htm
- What Is Homo Sapiens' Place in Nature? by Dr M. J. Vandeman
http://spaceforum.co.uk/con-servation/whatis.htm
- Interesting exchange on uk.environment.conservation newsgroup
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- Scottish Natural Heritage: A Force of Destruction!
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