New Zealand-Caribbean

[john grehan]

Geoff Read wrote

>1) It's a gee-whiz NEWSPAPER report John.

What is the point about it being a newspaper report. Are you saying it is
fallacious?

>I have it here in front of me,and yes, that particular paragraph doesn't
>make much sense to me either.  I can only guess that  Gulf of
>Mexico  hydrocarbon seep faunas were
>mentioned during the interview.

It did make sense to me in that I understood the report as representing the
view that the pattern was 'curious' and that one could only be at a loss
for an explanation. My point was, of course, that New Zealand science had
taken a backward step when, through the actions and decisions of the
Science Foundation, effectively silenced a productive research program that
showed such patterns to be commonplace and that 'explanations' were
possible that accommodate the parallel track geometry of marine and
terrestrial organisms across the Pacific.

John Grehan