I don't really agree with you...you sound very bitter towards those with educations! (did one steal your job??) Superdave


No super I'm not bitter at all. I actually had very nice PhD fellow working at my place for good while. He learned quite a bit. Not mention a number of different collage kids who wanted to learn about reptiles from someone who's actually done something. You can know all there is about arm speed , release , ball rotation , velocity but when you go out and throw a pitch to a real a batter, it's not the same as it was on the test a paper. As far as my own education go's with out bragging it's a safe bet I can get "a job" if I ever feel the need to go punch a clock for someone else. So far I'd say things have gone ok.


"The problem with many government agencies is that they hire people for positions OUTSIDE their range of expertise"

No kidding. The deal is these people who are hired OUTSIDE their range of expertise are put in positions of authority that are also OUTSIDE their range of expertise . So they SOMETIMES turn to people who are PERCIEVED as experts. The academics . At this point their fed information such as the USGS map etc. The job of the academics is to prove other people wrong and to be right. All thru school they learn to debate. In winning debates they raise questions and make points not on fact but by using speculation. This might be a good way to win in the classroom but in my opinion it's no way to determine the laws governing our society.

' academics are somewhat resistant to outside input...the outside input is usually very tainted by fear and/or religious views and/or plain ignorance (like the milksnake storys "they drink milk from cows!" ' Superdave

I'd say that door swings both ways. Again someone with real life experience can easily separate the wheat from the shaft. And once again that brings us back to the academics use of speculation as means of validation. The same people that told us the sun go's round the earth , the world is flat or that diverting the Kissimmee River in Fl. would be OK are now telling us that monsters could take over the nation.

For many years pythons and boas have been brought in to the US. Old carnival pictures dating back to the thirty's can found featuring these animals being handled by "snake charmers". For decades exotics were imported into the US completely unchecked . It was a total free for all. Thousands upon thousands. To date the only place pythons have been able to establish is in the Southern tip of Fl. No where else can a population be found . After all this time and decades of going completely unchecked no mass take over has occurred . This is not even taking into account the endless stretches of undeveloped land and waterways connecting the various locations during the many years that went completly un regulated . These highly favorable conditions for population expansion no longer exist. In this age of vast developmental pressure, laws governing importation , sales and private ownership the possibility of the giant snakes taking over a third of the US is now being projected by PERCIEVED experts and supported by special interest groups.

Who's side is very tainted by fear and/or religious views and/or plain ignorance ?

Ernie Eison
westwoodreptiles.com

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