Real Science => Sarcasm?

[Jim Croft]

>nomenclature IS NOT SCIENCE. I will now go
>further and state: Those of us who use Linnaean nomenclature without
>applying Hennigian grouping and ranking criteria (synapomorphy, age of
>origin), need to warn their users.

I can live with that...

>And that should
>force the others to admit that Linnaean nomenclature is an information
>retrieval system based on unique keys (names), but beyond that beware of
>what you attempt to derive from it...

and that as well...

>The more Science that
>is built into informational system, the more instability there will be as
>Science changes. New characters, intepretations, taxa, etc., will be
>discovered, etc.  So, let's let the ornithologists and the others who work
>on well-known groups worry about the PhyloCode, and we entomologists can
>names new species.

and also that...  but I wish you entomologists wouldn't... there are
already too many bugs...

jim