Taxacom: Science fraud - Nature

[Frederick W. Schueler]

On 25-Aug-23 1:00 a.m., Stephen Thorpe via Taxacom wrote:
> I'm not sure what John is on about either ... probably just another biogeographer rant (sorry John!)However, John does raise some valid general issues, but nobody seems to like to discuss these issues. One such issue concerns the notion of "fraud"

* well, what he's going on about is (insert chorus of trumpets from 
something by Handel) is the methodology of the scientific study of 
historical events. I don't follow the biogeographic literature, but one 
can see, a priori, that there are real problems in framing an historical 
narrative about evolutionary divergence with both the ad hoc invocation 
of long distance dispersal and ad hoc association of divergences with a 
geological narrative. The claim is that when there are two competing 
classes of hypotheses like this, it's fraudulent to publish an account 
which doesn't take both kinds of explanations into consideration.

fred.
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