Specimen Collection: A Necessary Weevil
Zoologists, botanists, mycologists, and all organismal scientists, share a common practice that receives quite a lot of negative attention: specimen collection. I receive questions every now and then on the reason why specimens have to be collected in the field, along with comments on how ‘cruel’ and ‘cold-blooded’ it is to kill and preserve specimens ‘just for the sake of science’. I want to discuss this issue in the context of some recent debate on this topic. This article is long, so I hide the rest beneath the Read More.
Excellent take down by Mark of a terrible paper!