Response to Wuster gang attack on the zoological code.

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Re: Response to Wuster gang attack on the zoological code.

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snakemanaustralia wrote:Dear all, Today the PDF files of Australasian Journal of Herpetology Issues 16-18 went online.
For those interested, the printed form of this "journal" can be found in a series of Big Chief Writing Tablets kept hidden under Ignatius' Raymond's bed.

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recently engaged in the mass re-naming of hundreds of taxa without evidence, in some serious acts of taxonomic and nomenclatural misconduct in their own journal in order to bypass any proper form of peer review or editorial review.
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Jeff wrote:
recently engaged in the mass re-naming of hundreds of taxa without evidence, in some serious acts of taxonomic and nomenclatural misconduct in their own journal in order to bypass any proper form of peer review or editorial review.
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Jeff wrote:
recently engaged in the mass re-naming of hundreds of taxa without evidence, in some serious acts of taxonomic and nomenclatural misconduct in their own journal in order to bypass any proper form of peer review or editorial review.
Australasian Journal of Herpetology
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P.S. Good point, Jeff.
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snakemanaustralia wrote:Evidence free taxonomy - Wuster Hoser et al.
Fixed that for you.
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Ray

The first paper in AJH 16 "Tidying up...sloppi..." You "Received" your own paper on 2 Dec. 2012, then "Accepted" the same paper on 17 Jan. 2013. Are you schizophrenic? The author, reviewer, and editor are the same person. What would happen if you rejected your own paper? If I were you, I would get seriously "whoop-ass" on the guy who mis-spelled "Exilioboa", failed to recognize that Sanziniinae (Romer 1956) has precedence over Acrantophiini (Hoser 2013 p. 3, or Acrantophiidini [p. 6], whichever way you wish to spell it), stated 3 times in the first 3 paragraphs on page 4 that this new classification is needed to bring "into line" boids with pythonids, thought there was a snake family called "Tropidhiidae", thought there was a "super family...Pythonidea." A bit of constructive criticism --- Fire his ass, Ray.

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Jeff wrote:... The author, reviewer, and editor are the same person...
And, of course, none of themhim understand or even respect science.

Does anyone know, is Hoser even this guy's real name? I mean, come on. In Canada, "hoser" often means "someone clumsily/offensively imitating Canadians" (and here we have someone clumsily/offensively imitating scientists). And in the U.S., "hoser" is sometimes used in referring to "someone who swindles or deceives others" (and the whole point of Hoser's posts here and Big Chief Writing Tablet "journals" on his website appears to be swindle the scientific community and deceive interested laypeople). I have no trouble believing this guy is psychotically narcissistic with his illness fixated on science, exactly as he appears, but maybe he's really just a troll with an awful lot of time on his hands - and he's using the name he does as part of the joke. Well, I guess his name is quite the joke in any event, by this point...

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