Taxacom: The importance of propaganda

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 8/17/2025 1:20 PM, John Grehan via Taxacom wrote:

> Abstracts are, if nothing else, a promotional statement to engage interest or awareness.

* to take the opposite tack, it has - ever since clickbait became a 
thing - seemed to me that the purpose of a scientific title or abstract, 
or a legitimate news headline, is - acknowledging the busyness of 
colleagues - to left potential readers know if they don't need to read 
the whole thing - e.g. "Strange Mountaintop Moths" vs "Vicariant 
distribution patterns in Hepialidae of the Solomon Islands."

fred.
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