RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for November 6, 2019

I note the dichotomy between the call for more social regulation of science in item #2 and the degradation of social media due to social regulation in item #4. I observe that the covert social control of science funding and covert surveillance and censorship of social media both stem from the same oppressive source. I conclude that eliminating that covert surveillance and oppression will cure both ills.

Regarding breeding Ancistrus sp. I believe speciation is the result of hybridization, and that the incremental Darwinian mechanism is perhaps not capable of driving speciation. Certainly the fossil record doesn't support Darwinian speciation, and the sudden appearance and persistence of novel species until their extinction with only minor changes does support the hypothesis of speciation by hybridization. Dr. Eugene McCarthy, the author of the bible of it's field 'The Handbook of Avian Hybrids' advances this hypothesis further at www.macroevolution.net.

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