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Saturday, November 04, 2006
| Category: Jive From dictionary.com: Slang. deceptive, exaggerated, or meaningless talk Jive may well be a better category name than my traditional WHWTMSitW (we have way too many scientists in this world). This article headlined Seafood species may be depleted within 50 years, scientists claim appears to be choc-a-block with Jive. I reckon I could comment on a sentence-by-sentence basis but let's just pick out some obvious targets. Wild seafood stocks could collapse by 2050 – including tuna, striped bass, blue crabs, oysters and clams – devastating food supplies, scientists warn in a major study to be published today.An exaggerated claim from a press release about an unpublished "study". especially at a time when pollution, overfishing and global warming are adding pressures, too.Press those buttons! “There is a clear and present danger to humans and their food security,” Duffy said.The implication of the entire "study" is that we should stop harvesting fish but this statement says that such a stop will somehow improve "food security". Figure that one. “It looks grim and the projection of the trend into the future looks even grimmer,” he said. “But it’s not too late to turn this around. It can be done, but it must be done soon. We need a shift from single species management to ecosystem management. It just requires a big chunk of political will to do it.”Okay, this is just me, but here's where I come up with my interpretation of what is being said here. The "scientists" believe that they are much smarter than everybody else and they can't understand why they do not have more influence on policy. I respond that they are, on the whole, at best, second quartile intellects who drop to the bottom quartile when it comes to the common sense metric. From dictionary.com, hooey: silly or worthless talk, writing, ideas, etc.; nonsense; bunk |
