Re: Nemegtian tyrannosaurs

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

George Olshecky (Dinogeorge@aol.com) wrote:

<How could you possibly verify this hypothesis? Paleontology these days
seems  to be scads of hypotheses shakily built on a few factual
observations.>

  Not so much as paleontology as the lax attitude afforded the studied
taxa and subjects under that heading by some if not many non-specialists
or non-professionals. This is not to discount any particular piece, but I
recall the same being said of George's BCF that George just wrote, quoted
above. One thing the greats in modern paleo do is employ a great deal of
rigor and detail into their work and are not afraid to point out for you
where the faults are in their hypotheses and call them theories and
hypotheses on the forefront, before you get very far into the actual
science or conclusions drawn from it.

  Cheers,


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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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