Taxacom: The importance of propaganda

[John Grehan]

Fred - you understand perfectly!

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 1:55?PM Frederick W. Schueler via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> 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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