[Taxacom] Users of Epacridaceae, its subclades, and systematics in general

[Karl Magnacca]

On Tue, March 31, 2009 4:17 am, Kenneth Kinman wrote:
> Unlike strict cladists, these are the mostly silent majority who are
> frankly getting tired of the fallout from extreme cladism.  Frankly
> these are the kind of people who pay the most of the taxes that fund
> the majority of governmental support for taxonomic research.  That
> there is now a bias toward funding those who are strict cladists is
> unfortunate, but this will certainly change.

Ken, I respect your opinion on this subject, but sometimes I have to
wonder about what kind of world you think we live in.  Most of the
people who pay the taxes for government-funded research in the US aren't
"strict cladists" because they don't even think evolution is true, not
because they support allowing paraphyletic groups.

Karl
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Karl Magnacca
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Zoology
Trinity College, Dublin 2
Ireland