TY - JOUR
T1 - Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data”
T2 - Myanmar amber
AU - Haug, Joachim Tobias
AU - Azar, Dany
AU - Ross, Andrew J.
AU - Szwedo, Jacek
AU - Wang, Bo
AU - Arillo, Antonio
AU - Baranov, Viktor A
AU - Bechteler, Julia
AU - Beutel, Rolf Georg
AU - Blagoderov, Vladimir A
AU - Delclòs, Xavier
AU - Dunlop, Jason A
AU - Feldberg, Kathrin
AU - Feldmann, Rodney M.
AU - Foth, Christian
AU - Gehler, Alexander
AU - Harms, Danilo
AU - Hedenäs, Lars
AU - Hyžný, Matúš
AU - Jagt, John Wilhelmus Maria
AU - Jagt-Yazykova, Elena A
AU - Jarzembowski, Edmund Aleksander
AU - Kerp, Hans
AU - Khine, Phyo Kay
AU - Kirejtshuk, Alexander G
AU - Klug, Christian
AU - Kopylov, Dmitry S
AU - Kotthoff, Ulrich
AU - Kriwet, Jürgen
AU - McKellar, Ryan C
AU - Nel, André N
AU - Neumann, Christian
AU - Nützel, Alexander
AU - Peñalver, Enrique
AU - Perrichot, Vincent
AU - Pint, Anna
AU - Ragazzi, Eugenio
AU - Regalado, Ledis
AU - Reich, Mike
AU - Rikkinen, Jouko K
AU - Sadowski, Eva Maria
AU - Schmidt, Alexander R
AU - Schneider, Harald
AU - Schram, Frederick R
AU - Schweigert, Günter
AU - Selden, Paul A
AU - Seyfullah, Leyla J
AU - Solórzano- Kraemer, Mónica Morayma
AU - Stilwell, Jeffrey
AU - van Bakel, Barry Wilhelmus Martinus
AU - Vega-Vera, Francisco J
AU - Wang, Yongdong
AU - Xing, Lida
AU - Haug, Carolin
PY - 2020/8/1
Y1 - 2020/8/1
N2 - Recently, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) has sent around a letter, dated 21st April,2020 to more than 300 palaeontological journals, signed by the President, Vice President and a former President of the society (Rayfield et al. 2020). The signatories of this letter request significant changes to the common practices in palaeontology. With our present, multi-authored comment, we aim to argue why these suggestions will not lead to improvement of both practice and ethics of palaeontological research but, conversely, hamper its further development. Although we disagree with most contents of the SVP letter, we appreciate this initiative to discuss scientific practices and the underlying ethics. Here, we consider different aspects of the suggestions by Rayfield et al. (2020) in which we see weaknesses and dangers. It is our intent to compile views from many different fields of palaeontology, as our discipline is (and should remain) pluralistic. This contribution deals with the aspects concerning Myanmar amber. Reference is made to Haug et al. (2020a) for another comment on aspects concerning amateur palaeontologists / citizen scientists /private collectors.
AB - Recently, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) has sent around a letter, dated 21st April,2020 to more than 300 palaeontological journals, signed by the President, Vice President and a former President of the society (Rayfield et al. 2020). The signatories of this letter request significant changes to the common practices in palaeontology. With our present, multi-authored comment, we aim to argue why these suggestions will not lead to improvement of both practice and ethics of palaeontological research but, conversely, hamper its further development. Although we disagree with most contents of the SVP letter, we appreciate this initiative to discuss scientific practices and the underlying ethics. Here, we consider different aspects of the suggestions by Rayfield et al. (2020) in which we see weaknesses and dangers. It is our intent to compile views from many different fields of palaeontology, as our discipline is (and should remain) pluralistic. This contribution deals with the aspects concerning Myanmar amber. Reference is made to Haug et al. (2020a) for another comment on aspects concerning amateur palaeontologists / citizen scientists /private collectors.
U2 - 10.1007/s12542-020-00524-9
DO - 10.1007/s12542-020-00524-9
M3 - Comment / Debate
SN - 0031-0220
VL - 94
SP - 431
EP - 437
JO - Paläontologische Zeitschrift
JF - Paläontologische Zeitschrift
ER -