On Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:19:05 +0000, Maroc wrote:
>using Moore as a source of facts you are going to encourage confrontation.
>This guy is the Dennis Avery of forestry.
And I do not significantly fault Avery's *logic.* It's his initial
assumptions that are out-to-lunch, which means that when his
basically-sound logic is applied to those initial assumptions, the
conclusions are flooey.
Moore is a Ph.D.-level ecologist, which suggests to me that he has a
rather more firm grounding in his topic area than does Avery. So far, I
haven't seen anything Moore has said that I would categorise as
flagrantly crazy (which I can't say for Avery). We may all dispute
details and approaches (that's what science is about, after all) but I
think Moore is at least worth paying attention to. In the areas where I
know my stuff, Moore hasn't yet said anything wrong. That lends greater
credibility to what he says about those areas in which I'm not so
strong.
I can't say the same for Avery.
Bart
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