If we are going to restrict this to a scientific debate (which I support),
then please provide your qualifications and \or references. Without such
documentation your ranting carries even less weight than the "pseudoscience"
you are so quick to demonize.
John Volpe
At 09:29 AM 5/9/96 -0400, you wrote:
>I would like some documentation that quinaldine is damaging to reefs in the
>manner in which it is applied to specific fishes hiding in holes. I've used
>it, and frankly have never found it to be any more abusive than chasing a
>fish into a cluster of stony branching corals. - Bob Goldstein, 919-872-1174
>or RJGA at AOL.COM. As to cyanide collecting, other than the rabid rantings of
>one writer in FAMA, it seems cyanide is a method of collecting food fish, not
>aquarium fish, so can we please drop that garbage from the discussion? In the
>Philippines and some other places, bleach and other cheap chemicals work to
>collect fish that sometimes temporarily recover. And frankly, cyanide kills
>or it doesn't; there is no such thing as a chronic effect. The report a
>couple of years ago of damaged intestinal lining was a classic of
>pseudoscience, which ought to be dumped from our discussions too. If you want
>information on cyanide's effects, look to qualified veterinarians,
>physicians, biochemists, and other qualified scientists, and forget about the
>work of dummies with stains and no background in pathology.
>
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John P. Volpe
Marine and Aquatic Sciences Section
Centre for Environmental Health
Dept. of Biology/Univ. of Victoria
P.O. Box 1700, Victoria B.C., Canada
Tel(604)472-4076, Fax:472-4075
jvolpe at uvic.ca
"You can buy salmon in any grocery store - fresh, frozen or
canned ... it does seem strange to me that we have Chinook
and Sockeye salmon on the endangered specie [sic] list."
--Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), floor speech on the Reid
Amendment, March 12, 1996.
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly
wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally,
it means they have not a single political argument left."
--Margaret Thatcher, _London Daily Telegraph_ (1986).