[Taxacom] Fwd: Nature needs names: 60 new dragonflies from Africa

[Robinwbruce at aol.com]

Taxacomers,
Any chance we can keep this thread going.................?
Reality is soaked with vulgarity.
 
Robin (in this instance No. 2)
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 12/12/2015 02:19:56 GMT Standard Time, releech at telus.net 
 writes:

Taxacomers,
Any chance we can get off this thread?
Vulgarity,  as below, does not become us.
Robin

-----Original  Message-----
From: Taxacom [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On  Behalf Of 
Peter Halasz
Sent: December-11-15 7:16 PM
To:  taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Fwd: Nature needs names:  60 new dragonflies from 
Africa

Steven,

Naively, I would have to  assume you write to this list because you want to
disrupt it and shit on  people's achievements. Naively, I would have to
assume you are also happy  to get your name known as that of a troll because
you hate your father and  want his name muddied as a weird, masochistic form
of revenge. Naively I  would assume you are paid to write to this list by
the number of people you  frustrate.

This is a cognitive bias called correspondent inference,  where you assume
someone's motivations are to do exactly what the results  of their actions
are. If someone slams a door and the room goes quiet, then  you assume they
slammed the door because they wanted quiet. And John Grehan  has already
pointed out how this has plays out for you.

I'm not  naive. I assume good faith in peoples actions because to jealously
ascribe  motivations of power and money to someone for getting media
attention for  their 15 years of work in describing 60 dragonflies is the
most ridiculous  thing I have ever heard. I find it nonsensical to talk of
getting media  attention as if science communication is somehow antithetical
to  science.

If you have nothing constructive to say, why say anything at  all, unless
your goal is to be a troll or to have a pissing contest over  who described
the most species in one publication? If you cannot assume  some good faith
of others then I'm certainly not going to do it for  you.

If you think the media is too "dodgy" to save the Earth then go  work on
your Earth-saving machine in your basement. I'd love to hear about  it but I
wouldn't want you to promote yourself by talking about it or  showing any
one. So please don't.

Thanks

Peter  Halasz
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