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I disagree with all that would like to stop this talk, because science cannot be mixed with politics, many papers and people have been discarded and obligated to change denominations by correctors, and I am sorry this is very political. Science is also very politic area. For instance, try to ask for funding to develop a project to study the origin of birds without using cladistics, and based that their ancestry are not theropod dinosaurs. I think that latitude and longitud are perfect, but, to define the nationality of a scientist. For example, in my case I would rather be define as English or Catalan, than British or Spanish. Instead of if I need to correct a paper where they locate a fossils that is in Catalonia, but they define it as Spain, I would suggest to use both, however, the last desition will be made by the author, and I would accept it! I think the discussion is about respect, and we ought to be flexible and use geography closer to science and respect the feelings of authors. Sincerely, Xavier Panades I Blas, Ms Please, send letters to: Fuhlrott-Museum / ARCO-Nepal Auer schulstr. 20 D-42103 Wuppertal cogombra@hotmail.com Tel. 0049 202/563 2636/4891 Fax 0049 202/563 8026 Student from: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Fakultät für Geowissenschaften Luisenstrasse 37 Zi. 223/I 80333 München,Germany ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Bruno GRANIER" <brcgranier@wanadoo.fr> Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk> Subject: Re: paleonet Palaeontology versus Geography versus Cultural Respect Versus Politics Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 14:29:12 +0100 (MET) My feeling is that there are official international borders between countries and we do not have to care about so-called "nations, tribes or races" ... For instance, Bosnia is Bosnia (if you just want to say one part of it is part of the Great Croatia or the Great Serbia, you put yourself into "Great" trouble), Padonia is not a country, Europe is a super-country, Palestine and Israel are countries ... Paleontology should not care of "ancient civilisation/nations/not to say cultures" when dealing with present-day geography ... The concept "one nation = one country" is just a facist ideal! I remember sometimes ago there was a similar discussion on IBERPAL@LISTSERV.REDIRIS.ES Niko you are right: we should probably stop the dicussion right there. Cheers, Bruno >Messsage du 11/03/2003 13:02 >De : <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk> >A : <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk> >Copie à : >Objet : Re: paleonet Palaeontology versus Geography versus Cultural Respect Versus Politics > > Latitude and longitude provide an objective, non-cultural/political > means of locating points upon the Earth's surface. > > Duncan McLean > > _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool emoticons http://messenger.msn.co.uk
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