RE: Gaia theropod follow-up: a "new" phylogeny

["Tracy Ford" <tlford@ix.netcom.com>]

One thing I don't do (and which good systematists don't do) is recode and
recode until I get a tree I like.  <<
That's what I'm talking about. Say the person using Paup doesn't like the
out come of the tree, THEY tweak it until it is something THEY like. Then WE
don't know if the person was right or the computer was right in the first
place. If they always do that then how can we know (as George as said in the
past) which is right? It's like having a chocolate granola bar, it defeats
it's purpose.
Tracy