More on Christenhusz et al (2018)

Alan Meerow bulbman@hotmail.com
Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:10:08 PST
There were several calls for censure of all taxonomic changes made in 
Global Taxonomy.  A rather stern letter condemning the way Christenhusz 
et al (2018) went about publishing was published by the American Society 
of Plant Taxonomists.  What was particularly upsetting to many was that 
this publication compromised dissertation work by Ph.D. students about 
to publish (e.g., my former student Nicolás Garcia, for one). Moreover, 
the authors mostly didn't alert long time specialists in various groups 
what they were planning to do, and where they did, were rather callous 
in their approach )i.e., "either you do it or we're going to").  I think 
Nico and I were very restrained in our response in his Taxon paper. When 
I saw Michael Fay and Maarten in Brazil shortly after Global Taxonomy 
appeared, I was quite straightforward about how it was difficult not to 
take their sojourn into Amaryllidaceae personally, especially given that 
Fay and I have a rather wrought history (which I thought we'd transcended).

Alan Meerow
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