Taxacom: Butterfly origins in space and time

John Grehan calabar.john at gmail.com
Tue Aug 22 12:29:37 CDT 2023


As an additional observation, interesting that now no one on Taxacom even
poses objections to the falsification of the CODA method. No one has a
refutation of the fabrication of imaginary vicariance and dispersal used in
automated recipes such as BioGeoBears, or the absolute absurdity of using
area units that have boundaries that do not exist in the actual real world
(at least assuming there is a natural, real world outside our metaphysical
constructions). I am trying to think of any other comparable instance in
science where research programs have run on the basis of total
fabrication and imagined realities. Lysenko's genetics perhaps? Anyone with
ideas about that would be most interested. I sometimes wonder if the use of
highly elaborate computational recipes provide a barrier of protection
around absurdities as it scares off critics - unless one gets to the hard
core of the concepts upon which the fabrications are built. In NZ the
butterfly dispersalists were given free reign in a podcast to spout off
about a butterfly genus somehow drifting across the Tasman sea to form an
endemic group, even though they have no close relatives in Australia! The
podcaster has so far refused to give air to any alternative approach to
this matter. Endlessly fascinating.

John Grehan

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 1:57 AM John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com> wrote:

> In reference to the past announcement of publication of the biogeography
> and evolution of Coenonymphina butterflies, I would note that this has been
> received with what I can only describe as 'stony silence' by the molecular
> dispersalists. Seems that no one has any credible rebuttal, and so resort
> to just ignoring it. Typical research standard for CODA  (center of origin,
> dispersal, and adaptation) supporters. Did not expect any better and was
> not disappointed in that respect. For the few on this list who might be
> interested, another summary article (Ancient Mesozoic roots of New
> Zealand's ringlet butterflies (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae) published at the
> following: https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweta.ento.org.nz%2Findex.php%2Fweta&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7C971a4beedfdd448f708608dba3357488%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638283222205549243%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=s2u1xouiVlS%2BnWfvuCZAMZsgoagKuR1tTQtR8Ty4mVo%3D&reserved=0
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> Cheers, John Grehan
>
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