[Taxacom] Serious questions about taxonomy/ontology

[Curtis Clark]

  On 9/12/2010 2:37 PM, Richard Zander wrote:
>   You _could_ say that to "Big Funder" but you have to detail your own
> methods if you can, not just disparage those of others. Naif in the
> Woods may say innocence needs no defense, but Big Funders compare
> details of methods.
This is interesting. In most fields, funders compare results, not 
methods, and of course pattern recognition does fairly well in the 
results category. I draw the conclusion that Big Funders in science 
compare methods simply because results are so uncommon as to provide an 
inadequate heuristic for future work.

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