RE: "running" elephants - locomotory analogs

[John R Hutchinson <jrhutch@stanford.edu>]

> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 07:48:58 EDT
> From: GSP1954@aol.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: RE: "running" elephants - locomotary analoges
>
> In his post on my comments on differing methodologies for investigating the
> locomotion of extinct animals John does not entirely accurately characterize
> my position, and deal with tangential and semantic issues that do not get to
> the core of the problem.

I won't take the time to respond to Greg's well-explained points here, but 
my upcoming papers will explain some of the contradictions between the 
T.rex Nature paper results and what Greg construes as "reality".  All of 
the approaches we've discussed for objectively teasing apart what is 
reality from what is assumed are science.  There's a lot more science to be 
done before any "conclusion is about as close to true as one can get 
without a time machine".  My post was responding to tangential/semantic 
issues raised by others and said little explicitly about what Greg 
does/does not do.  I'll leave publicizing my views on the core science 
stuff for the peer-reviewed literature.

Scientifically yours,  :)
John

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