Raymond Hoser, the "pseudo-taxonomist" synonymous with revising an entire family of animals- BASED PURELY ON SUPERFICICIAL MORPHOLOGICAL nuances- has again botched another species.

When the government has used nothing but crap science all along the way, it is no surprise that Raymond Hoser's taxonomic revision of Python reticulatus was used. Here is a link and a quote to his article:

Taxonomy
For many years the Reticulated Python Broghammerus reticulatus was referred to the snake genus Python, with which it is superficially similar. The obvious link being over-large size. However in a 2003/2004 paper/publication and for the first time, Australian zoologist Raymond Hoser, known worldwide as The Snakeman, referred to many examined specimens and decided that on the basis of obvious morphological differences that the Reticulated Python should be moved to a new genus. As no name existed for this taxon, the genus name Broghammerus was erected by Hoser to accommodate the Reticulated Python.

The name Broghammerus is in tribute to a well-known German herpetologist named Stefan Broghammer.

Following the erection of the genus Broghammerus, a group of misfits including serial wildlife smuggler David John Williams, with serious convictions for smuggling and cruelty to reptiles and his associate in unethical activity, Wolfgang Wüster, best known for dishonest academic activity in the form of plagiarisation (fraudulently misrepresenting other people’s discoveries as his own), commenced a campaign of misinformation in terms of the name Broghammerus, to try to claim the name was not appropriate for the Reticulated Python.

These men had an axe to grind following the reporting of the Williams criminal activity in the best selling Hoser books Smuggled and Smuggled-2, published in 1993 and 1996, including the detailing of a very sordid case where Williams was fined $7500 in the Cairns Magistrate’s Court for serious animal cruelty to reptiles as well as illegally trafficking (smuggling) them for profit.

Returning to the Reticulated Pythons, there was besides Hoser’s conclusions, very strong evidence in support of Reticulated Pythons being placed in the genus Broghammerus from considerable earlier data by herpetologist Sam McDowell and others. In other words, it was somewhat unusual that it had taken so long for herpetologists to twig that something was wrong with the historical placement of these snakes in the genus Python.

On a personal note, this guy is a FRAUD.. He makes my stomach churn.

Sincerely,
Jordan Russell
page after page of crap science, pompous rants and lies..

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