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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Cantelo" data-source="post: 3290230" data-attributes="member: 2844"><p>A number of comments questioning whether, in this instance, the killing a little known bird could be justified (either scientifically or otherwise) is scarcely a 'torrent'.  Others can judge whether the comments questioning this here were smug and self satisfied, but I think these terms could better be applied to those who seem to think that the magic word "science" absolves them from criticism or the need to justify their actions to others, some of whom, shock, horror, may not be scientists themselves.  To simply label those who question what happened as "anti-science" ducks the issue. Personally, I am willing to accept that there may be instances where collection of a specimens may be justified, but very strongly feel that this isn't one of them. The tissue thin justifications of what happened only tends to confirm my view.</p></blockquote><p></p>