Shows how much I know. I've never even heard of Edward O Wilson...

;-)

Greg

Gene GeRue wrote:

> Doug:
>
> >Finally, plenty of environmentalists are also good scientists.  E. O.
> >Wilson, for example.
>
> Good people can do bad things, whether Patrick Moore or Edward O Wilson.
> Successful scientists, like politicians, tend to become arrogant. In
> NATURALIST (p. 272), Wilson describes how he and a crew from National
> Exterminators sprayed parathion on entire mangrove islands to kill every
> living animal organism, to facilitate his colonization experiments. Some
> beetle larvae survived, so he then caused the islands to be fumigated with
> a poisonous gas. Not my concept of environmentalism.
>
> Gene GeRue, author,
> How To Find Your Ideal Country Home: A Comprehensive Guide
> http://www.ruralize.com/

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