This Is How Far Zoology Has Sunken

 

 There have been no takers amongst the people I  offered the opportunity to DNA test the Olds Foxes and Old wild cats in possession of my colleague LM at the Extinct Foxes and Wild Cats Museum. Even if it turned out the test results were mundane (I doubt they would be) there are at least two papers that can come from such work.

My Red Paper books are not designed to be sellers and financially rewarding -people just are not interested so the expectance is zero sales!  The Red Papers are all fully referenced and would serve as research to be peer reviewed -no, I cannot think of anyone else who has spent 50 years researching and studying foxes or who has carried out research in newspaper archives as well as journals and books going back to the 18th century -but everything in the books are checkable.

The fella at a Swiss museum who told me he had been "a red fox expert for 30 years" but had not come across anything I had noted in an email to him. Well, how many 19th, 18th or 17th century wildlife and hunting books and journals had he read?  I cite the Norwegian zoologists who informed me that only fox furs would have been exported to England and that they had never heard of Norwegian mountain foxes -so I sent them all the references I had and after that they no longer responded to emails. The Swiss fella told me that their collection of foxes were in a room behind him but that he was not going to get up and check them unless I had a paper published that explained my "bizarre" claims. He was not interested in a copy of the book. 

That is unscientific in mindset as well as in practice. If he had looked and found examples -photos were sent for him to check- he could have gotten a book or more research grants had he found an Old fox type.

I come across the rather rude responses or even silence from a lot of European museums who will not discuss, check and in some cases will not even reply. One museum in the Netherlands did and they found a fox from England dated 1848 -which would have been perfect for DNA testing.

The Sarrazin foxes referred to in past posts would have had zoological if not national importance for French zoology but the Paris Museum simply sent me in circles ands pretended that they did not understand what I wanted -sent in English and French!

It is interesting that certain persons at museums have decided that rather than look at the work -they are not paying for the books!-  and the evidence it is better to call me names or suggest that I am a crackpot. I do hear back from people about these things.

Zoology appears to have become unscientific and at times I think ought to change its name to Dogmaology. From the very top to the lower ranks of zoology and natural history it seems that it has just been decided to not rock HMS Dogma but keep promoting it and making money from it.  It hides the facts and truth of what humans have done in driving species extinct or, as with the current British fox and badgers, just sit back and watch them go extinct after all, there will be a lot of money in trying to 're-introduce' or write papers and books about the stupidity of people allowing the extinctions.

How far zoology has fallen.