[Taxacom] "A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening to Topple Taxonomy": more political nonsense

Wed Sep 13 16:15:49 CDT 2017

Do I detect a note of sarcasm in Bevan's use of positive spin language, i.e. "applaud", "entertaining"? Just to reiterate my view, I think that Hoser acts deplorably in many ways. The question is whether anyone has the right to stop him (assuming he is within the law), and what REALLY annoys me is the nonsense that gets written to try to invalidate his new taxon names (which is a quite different issue to Hoser's "political" rants), nonsense that all too often deliberately misrepresents the scientific and nomenclatural facts. Incidentally, what I though Bevan might be about to say is that the article "A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening to Topple Taxonomy", is scoped explicitly to cover all taxonomy, but all actual discussion is only about zoology. Bevan: are there any known "taxonomic vandals" in botany and/or mycology?

Stephen

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On Wed, 13/9/17, Bevan Weir <WeirB at landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] "A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening to Topple Taxonomy": more political nonsense
 To: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu" <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
 Received: Wednesday, 13 September, 2017, 6:00 PM

 I don’t know anything about
 Herpetology to comment on the taxonomy, but I do applaud
 Hoser for the most entertaining etymology notes I have ever
 read, e.g.: for BOIGA MICKPITMANI SP. NOV.

 "A police-protected
 criminal and shrewd businessman, Steve Irwin cultivated a
 close relationship with corrupt government officials who
 acted as his paid thugs to repeatedly engage in illegal
 armed raids of Pitman’s home and business in order to shut
 him down."

 And so on
 for another 20 paragraphs...
 http://www.smuggled.com/issue-35-pages-33-42.pdf

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 On Behalf Of Stephen Thorpe
 Sent: Tuesday,
 12 September 2017 8:46 a.m.
 To: Raymond
 Hoser - The Snakeman
 Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
 Subject: Re: [Taxacom] "A Few Bad
 Scientists Are Threatening to Topple Taxonomy": more
 political nonsense

 Hey
 Ray,

 Why not try writing in
 a polite tone for once? You can basically make all the same
 points, but you won't alienate your audience so much.
 Such alienation is counterproductive to your goals.

 Anyway, I would just like to
 agree with you in general about comment blogs. It is common
 for a blog author to act as comments moderator. Often, this
 results in them blocking any comments which disagree or
 criticise their stated view/opinion in any way, and only let
 through what they agree with. The only thing that we can do
 is to be aware of this problem, and recognise that blog
 comments may be highly biased, and that alternative view
 holders may have been blocked from commenting.

 Stephen

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 On Mon, 11/9/17, Raymond Hoser - The Snakeman
 <viper007 at live.com.au>
 wrote:

  Subject: Re:
 [Taxacom] "A Few Bad Scientists Are Threatening to
 Topple Taxonomy": more political nonsense
  To: "iczn-list at afriherp.org"
 <iczn-list at afriherp.org>
  Cc: "taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu"
 <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
  Received: Monday, 11 September, 2017, 5:32
 PM

  Dear all,

  I
 also seem to have been blocked from the thread as well.

  The latest "Hoser
 bashing" article is more toxic  that uninformed people
 may realise.
  There are stack of obvious
 factual defects, including  that claim that I, Hoser
 petitioned the ICZN in 2009 to  rename a genus of
 rattlesnake and was REFUSED.

  No such petition happened and so the claim
 MUST be false.

  The link
 "substantiating" the claim is to a Wuster 
 controlled webpage telling people not to use the Hoser
 genus  name Hoserea Hoser, 2009 and nothing more.

  It is the same circular
 self-citing crap that the Wuster  team have become quite
 expert at and using to peddle their  ISIS-like brand of
 lies and hatred.

 Thankfully Wuster is neither the ICZN or the majority of 
 herpetologists!

  As for his
 "majority view", lie, this is well  perpetuated
 by the author of the latest rant, by REFUSING to  speak
 with the less vocal majority or even the vocal ones in  the
 group, for some balance in all this.

  All we get are the same misleading quotes from
 Wuster,  Kaiser and the usual suspects.

  In terms of comments at the end of the
 (obviously NOT peer
  reviewed) blog piece,
 several people I know have tried to  post correcting
 comments on the blog and they have all been  stopped by the
 moderator, while rubbish comments are put  through.

  And finally, in terms of
 taxonomic vandalism, we need a  quick reality check.

  Myself (Hoser) has never
 tried to rename anything .... it is  all new taxa.

  Not one single piece of
 "taxonomic vandalism"!

  By contrast Wuster and his gang had at last
 count illegally  renamed no less than 41 species, genera
 and family (yes we  are talking known objective junior
 synonyms) of many authors  (not just I) and then improperly
 tried to get everyone else  to use the wrong
   names.
  As for alleged
 majority support, this seems to fade when  one looks at
 books, when pretty much all of them use the  correct (non
 Wuster gang) names.
  All the best
  Raymond Hoser

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