subspecies

[Curtis Clark]

At 11:28 PM 11/10/99 -0500, Chris Carlton wrote:
>However, this is a double edged sword. A resourceful congressperson of the
>appropriate inclination could intercept a lot of the messages in this
>thread and use them as evidence of government waste to protect taxa that
>the "scientists are not even sure of the existance of".

Absolutely. Especially since many politicians at least publicly eschew the
existence of uncertainty. And again it points up the uneasy nature of the
marriage between science and public policy.


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