tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377249718696904521.post1988403598082887907..comments2024-02-17T16:05:30.527-06:00Comments on Brothers of the Serpent Podcast: Episode #113: Clovis and MicronovasSnakeBroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02461631759355754673noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5377249718696904521.post-29818104761766757012022-07-10T19:30:35.249-05:002022-07-10T19:30:35.249-05:00posted 10 July 2022 — In order to maintain a sane ...posted 10 July 2022 — In order to maintain a sane perspective hearing the relentless drumbeat repetition of the claims that every detail of the “Anzic” infant confirms the now utterly discredited “Clovis-first-because-we-say-so” hypothesis…<br />keep in mind that Wykypydya is notorious for allowing modification to its entries, and also for generally enforcing narratives that conform to the political views of the left, or the orthodoxy of the academic community. <br /><br />This is especially true of the so-called “soft” sciences — psychology, sociology, anthropology, archaeology, Egyptology, et cetera. In the “hard” sciences, the articles tend to be much more to the point, and free of gratuitous claims of unchallengeable infallibility, and generally use mathematics and tables of quantified experimental findings and measurements resulting from experiments that have been verified by multiple investigators. Yes, there are instances in which credentialed scientists have been found to have distorted data, or hidden results that failed to support a hypothesis. They are human.<br /><br />The example of the ridiculous extremities of the feud between paleontologists Charles Othniel Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope needs to be required reading for students of, well, almost all the sciences. From being reasonably respectful acquaintances early on, they morphed into spitting, hissing antagonists as their parallel careers unfolded, each one rushing frantically to find and study new fossil critters, and publish a description before the hated rival could. That lead to some comical outcomes. The book “The Hot Blooded Dinosaur” by Adrian Desmond, does a great job of describing that feud. It also gives a clear picture of the work of paleontologists Robert Bakker and his mentor John Ostrom. Those two managed to profoundly change our modern understanding of Dinosaurs.<br />Mad Fiddlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17201840057787204907noreply@blogger.com