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Ive mentioned it before, but setting out to prove anything in the science community can be dangerous. Often times, you will prove what you want and may even be good enough to prove it to others.
I just read an article that demonstrated this better than anything else ive ever seen. Surprisingly it came from discussions regarding climate change.
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Now, no livestock were involved, but suspecting that we had too many elephants now, I did the research and I proved we had too many, and I recommended that we would have to reduce their numbers and bring them down to a level that the land could sustain. Now, that was a terrible decision for me to have to make, and it was political dynamite, frankly. So our government formed a team of experts to evaluate my research. They did. They agreed with me, and over the following years, we shot 40,000 elephants to try to stop the damage. And it got worse, not better. Loving elephants as I do, that was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life, and I will carry that to my grave. One good thing did come out of it. It made me absolutely determined to devote my life to finding solutions."
Allan Savory is a good man with the best intentions...be he slaughtered 40,000 elephants on biased research because he needed to prove something.
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I just read an article that demonstrated this better than anything else ive ever seen. Surprisingly it came from discussions regarding climate change.
"....
Now, no livestock were involved, but suspecting that we had too many elephants now, I did the research and I proved we had too many, and I recommended that we would have to reduce their numbers and bring them down to a level that the land could sustain. Now, that was a terrible decision for me to have to make, and it was political dynamite, frankly. So our government formed a team of experts to evaluate my research. They did. They agreed with me, and over the following years, we shot 40,000 elephants to try to stop the damage. And it got worse, not better. Loving elephants as I do, that was the saddest and greatest blunder of my life, and I will carry that to my grave. One good thing did come out of it. It made me absolutely determined to devote my life to finding solutions."
Allan Savory is a good man with the best intentions...be he slaughtered 40,000 elephants on biased research because he needed to prove something.
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