Maria Stella wrote
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> I would disagree Jim. Budiansky uses the expressions you mentioned, but
> You forgot to read the Contents:
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> "Good Poetry, Bad Science" (cleassic) "nature myth"
> "The cult of the wild"
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> and the columnation:
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> "Nazis, Planners, Eugenicists, and Other Ecologists"
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> These are HEADS OF CHAPTERS or CHAPTER NAMES, and all what you have
> mentioned are hironically put under these characterizations. They are
> analysed only in order to be characterized in the end as loonies,
> romantics, flower power, zen without the art of motorcycle maintenance,
> etc.
> I think it is extremely naive for Budiansky. I have read your links to
> previous e-mails, but i did not see anything about his credentials. NOt
> that i believe that science writers necessarily are bad scientists, and he
> does seem informed in many things, but he is extremely selective in
> others. Old forests is for him pest nurseries, while new are the paradigm
> for health.
CP: I must have read a different book.
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