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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• USGS "Giant Python potential range" map! - brhaco, Wed Feb 20 22:56:47 2008
• RE: USGS "Giant Python potential range" - TimCole, Thu Feb 21 00:14:29 2008
• RE: USGS "Giant Python potential range" - womakid, Thu Feb 21 10:01:27 2008
• The insane media has just begun - Eby, Thu Feb 21 10:08:13 2008
• 12,000 PYTHON/RATTLER HYBRIDS - Eby, Thu Feb 21 10:42:56 2008
• RE: 12,000 PYTHON/RATTLER HYBRIDS - HappyHillbilly, Sat Feb 23 08:57:03 2008
• RE: 12,000 PYTHON/RATTLER HYBRIDS - HydraZulu, Wed Mar 5 15:36:06 2008
• There is no excuse for this.... - lbenton, Thu Feb 21 11:02:13 2008
• RE: There is no excuse for this.... - djs27, Thu Feb 21 11:12:23 2008
• Like the Spanish-American War? - laurarfl, Sat Feb 23 09:14:04 2008
• RE: The insane media has just begun - superdave1781, Thu Feb 21 12:18:14 2008
• RE: The insane media has just begun - lbenton, Thu Feb 21 12:49:50 2008
• RE: The insane media has just begun - superdave1781, Thu Feb 21 13:05:12 2008
• just wanted to add... - superdave1781, Thu Feb 21 14:08:40 2008
• A little temp range perspective - MadAxeMan, Thu Feb 21 22:15:36 2008
• Government Scientists confirmed??? - MadAxeMan, Thu Feb 21 21:56:31 2008
• RE: The insane media has just begun - HydraZulu, Wed Mar 5 15:35:04 2008
• RE: USGS "Giant Python potential range" - jeffb, Thu Feb 21 15:44:10 2008
• RE: USGS "Giant Python potential range" - djs27, Fri Feb 22 11:25:29 2008
• RE: USGS "Giant Python potential range" - HydraZulu, Wed Mar 5 16:06:42 2008
• dont believe - amazonreptile, Fri Feb 22 12:09:10 2008
• RE: USGS "Giant Python potential range" map! - Luhrsreptiles, Fri Feb 22 13:50:56 2008
• What we're dealing with .............. - wstreps, Fri Feb 22 14:00:01 2008
• RE: What we're dealing with .............. - superdave1781, Fri Feb 22 15:30:50 2008
• RE: What we're dealing with .............. - wstreps, Fri Feb 22 17:15:54 2008
• RE: What we're dealing with .............. - superdave1781, Sun Feb 24 09:01:27 2008
• RE: What we're dealing with .............. - wstreps, Sun Feb 24 11:09:36 2008
• RE: What we're dealing with .............. - superdave1781, Sun Feb 24 18:38:30 2008
• RE: USGS "Giant Python potential range" map! - superdave1781, Fri Feb 22 15:21:35 2008
• RE: USGS "Giant Python potential range" map! - Luhrsreptiles, Fri Feb 22 16:32:38 2008
• RE: USGS "Giant Python potential range" map! - jscrick, Fri Feb 22 18:07:46 2008
• Don't think the pythons read his books? - lbenton, Mon Feb 25 10:45:13 2008
• RE: Don't think the pythons read his books? - jscrick, Mon Feb 25 11:24:41 2008