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Originally Posted by sihaya
Seriously? I'd be curious to hear your ideas. While I certainly see the argument that Mr. Borneman did nothing criminal or even too grossly immoral, I'm not sure I see much a case for him being entirely blameless (no matter what his side of the story is). In my personal opinion, Mr. Borneman was, at best, careless and irresponsible. I just can't imagine any respectable scientist taking that many corals to a commercial distributor and leaving their care to the wholesalers who were not researchers and not trained to care for these kinds of corals at all. This is just not any responsible way to do research.
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While I won't speak for Cuddle, I will give you my perception. Keep in mind, I haven't been interested enough to read the documents. If he was at best, careless and irresponsible; well who hasn't been? I fully understand that his level of carelessness and irresponsibility may have been on a grander scale than a single reefkeeper, but as a whole, there are enough new threads started on Reef Central alone to indicate there are quite a number of people out there killing off large quantities of animals.
Maybe I'm splitting hairs, but as someone who works in the medical field I am surrounded by scientists (we have two enormous research buildings in our complex.) Every scientist I have ever run into has a PhD; at this time I believe EB does not hold such a degree and is therefore he should not be regarded as one. The reason I bring this up is because (in my view) the U.S Government (an agency of which I am trying to become an ex-employee) decided to hand over "National Assets" (as we'll call 'em) to an individual who may not have had the proper credentials to care for these animals. Why should the U.S. Gov't be let off the hook? If they were to have given them to a group of school children and the results were the same, would there be a website dedicated to telling the world of their doings?
Call me old fashioned, but I don't believe in trial by internet. If the guy doesn't want to talk about it, he has that right (check the U.S Constitution if you don't believe me.) Everyone here is entitled to their opinion of the man; I respect that. This thread hasn't swayed me in the least bit, one way or the other. It has been interesting, that is for sure!!