Bad Examples (ad naseum)

[Julian Humphries]

 I have another
> request for bad examples ---I'd like to be able to give
> students some really outrageously bad examples of species
> description, as for example when someone described the
> pedicellaria of an echinoid as a new hydroid species.  Now my
> colleagues can call tell me of bad examples in their field, but
> I don't want to use any that impugn the reputations of the
> living.  I'd rather use published examples from the past?  Can
> you think of any such "good" bad examples?  Thanks, Judy Winston
>

Folks, please.  Don't fill Taxacom with more examples of how not to do
science.  If you have such examples, send them directly to Dr. Winston,
don't reply to the list as a whole.  She can then summarize and post as a
single message.

Thanks,
Julian Humphries
Ecology and Systematics
Cornell University

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