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Stephan Pickering said, "My feelings toward
von Huene -- despite the claim he made enormous contributions to early
paleobiology (his 1900-1932 writings on dinosaurs are uneven, but, in places
masterful) -- are coloured by one fact: like Janensch, he remained silent while
the slaughter transpired 1933-1945. Even after the Holocaust, both
remained silent, thereby rendering irrelevant their "authority" to speak for
paleo(bio)ontology."
IMO, if we negate a scientist's authority
to speak on matters of his science simply because of his politics, his
perceived political negligence, his religion, or his lack of religion, we,
ourselves, risk emulating a part of the debased 'spirit' of Adolph
Hitler.
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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