Michael Lovejoy's
dissected 'presentation' (If you can call it that. See below.) of my statement
distorts the meaning of what I had said.
In case Julia Day is reading
this, I repeat, verbatim, what I actually said, for her
convenience:
"The claim of sauropod species diagnosis on the basis of
footprints is
one that should be examined, but with a healthy grain of salt. If a multi-species claim is not clearly substantiated by evidence presented in the scientific paper, then the attention-evoking claim of having the first evidence of multiple species herding is nothing but a sham." I might more discretely have softened the statement
and used the term, "wishful thinking", instead of "a sham"; but I stand
by the original statement. It seems unfair for Michael to put the
word "possibly" into my statement. He should know (if he is a good
reader) very well that there is a subtle but very important difference in what I
said compared what he, de facto, has me saying. I said IF (meaning that
conditions would have to be met for it to be so)... There is an
important difference.
This is supposed to be a list concerning dinosaur
science. It therefore behooves one to be a fair witnesses when
quoting the statements of anyone.
Ray Stanford
"You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles."
-- Sherlock Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery
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