The beehive is still humming but it's not happening on the Forum at the moment.
• Once we have AE's height I'll be working with Dr. Richard Jantz to write a response to last year's challenge to his conclusion that the castaway of Gardner Island was female. Unfortunately that''s not a process I can share with the Forum. Once the paper is finished and published I'm sure there'll be lots of spirited Forum discussion.
One of the ways to look at a beehive is that virtually
all of the activity is out of sight - unless you want to strap itty-bitty cameras onto the bees for a real-time view of what's going on inside the hive. I'm sure we'll get there sometime soon, as fast as technology is changing. Until that time, though, I think timely and informative updates on where the various efforts are isn't too much to ask for.
As far as Dr. Jantz's research goes, we must keep in mind that the new research wasn't a personal attack on Jantz - or a deliberate attack directed at TIGHAR and the Nikumaroro process. Far from it. What is going on is a vivid example of the scientific method in action.
Scientists are different from most of is in one respect. If you present information to a scientist that is at odds with their belief about something, including what you used to get to your conclusion, how you go there, and why and what choices were made during your analysis, and others can use that same information/methods/etc. to arrive at the same outcome, than the scientist will change his mind, and say, "Yeah, that makes more sense."
And not go back to their previously-held belief - unlike most of the rest of us humans, who are far more likely to cling to a certain belief, opinion, whatever, no matter how ridiculous others may view it as. Scientists are better at being intellectually honest with themselves.
Or so it seems to me.
LTM,
Monty Fowler, TIGHAR No. 2189 EC