[Taxacom] Wrongly named by scientists

[Mike Dallwitz]

Geoff Read wrote:

>> About a third of all types of fish and other marine life have been wrongly 
>> named by scientists, complicating efforts to conserve what could be a 
>> million marine species, experts said on Wednesday.
> 
> Reuters staff, who transformed a positive press release into the more 
> newsworthy negative, will shortly similarly revisit the wisdom of  
> physicians, physicists, geographers, and chemists, etc of 250 years ago and 
> make news out of the percentage of their work that is incorrect, no longer 
> useful, or otherwise unusable today. Yeah right. 

The difference is that other scientists don't spend a large part of their 
time searching for, recording, analyzing, and republishing the mistakes of 
the past. We might see a similar news article if a research organisation 
makes a press release on advances in the chemistry of phlogiston.

-- 
Mike Dallwitz
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