Here's a summary of a post I made on another forum that expresses my view based on personal experience.


What we are dealing with are academics and political business men. These guys earn their PhD's in the classroom it's all done on paper not via real life. Then they go out in the field and try to apply their classroom knowledge to life. The problem is they don't know about real life so they fall back on what they understand. Hypothesis, theory's etc. The stuff that got them passing grades in school. Their field research gets reduced to a science project conducted by individuals who do not have a working knowledge of the subject. They look for textbook answers in constantly changing equations.The highly flawed conclusions are then passed on to people who know even less for a final evaluation. The USGS map is a perfect example of how the system works. A major problem is academics are very resistant to being proven wrong and the people who enlist them are looking for validation. In these situations known facts take a back seat to theory.

Ernie Eison
westwoodreptiles.com

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