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I see you are once again using this forum on social media to advance your personal cause. I have googled you and this is an example of your technique. you take a small piece from the scientific literature out of context and use it to make an unsuportable claim. • FROM SUEONMULL • For information this is a quote from THE ECOLOGY OF RAGWORT (SENECIO JACOBAEA L.) - A REVIEW, the New Zealand paper often referred to: "No study has yet investigated the influence of strong winds on the long-distance disperal of ragwort seeds, yet such winds, even if occasional, could still be highly important. At Arthurs Pass and near Cass, isolated ragwort plants may have been derived from seed blown by strong north-west winds from the Westland side of the main divide, possibly many kilometres (C. Burrows, pers. comm.). Sheldon and Burrows (1973) concluded that long distance dispersal of disc achenes would occur only if the dispersal unit was carried high into the atmosphere by convection currents." There are other accepted seed dispersal mechanisms, specifically water courses and animals. • JeanPaulDubois IN REPLY TO SUEONMULL 3 Aug 2014 16:51 3 4 But it is not fair to make an argument like this. The paragraph before the one you choose. It said. "While large numbers of seeds are usually produced, they appear to exhibit relatively poor disperal. Wind is probably the major dispersal agent. An experiment conducted by Poole and Cairns (1940) at Piopio, which involved trays being set out at various distances from a patch of ragwort plants to trap seed, found that 60% of the seeds produced were released from the seedhead, presumably by wind. The majority of these were dispersed downwind from the prevailing (north-easterly) direction, and mostly within a few metres. An almost insignificant minority were dispersed as far as 36.6 metres. The data show that the dispersal pattern of ragwort seeds in space is approximately elliptical, with the centre of the ellipse a few metres downwind from the source of the seeds." It is a New Zealand study. The plant there it is not native so any spread might be highly important because the invader is carried to new places. Here in Europe it is a natural plant. Some small number of seeds carried high by convection currents is invisible in effect. It is not to be thought of. I search "quote mining" and I find it is what you do here. It is the tactic of the creationists, who take something small from something big to make it seem that they are right. The other pages of that paper also say the seeds do not go far. You do not use the context properly. I find this good quote, "Pseudoscientists often reveal themselves by their handling of the scientific literature. Their idea of doing scientific research is simply to read scientific periodicals and monographs. They focus on words, not on the underlying facts and reasoning." All the underlying facts and reasoning in that paper says seeds do not normally go far by the wind.

Yes I would most certainly! The evidence supports it! Letters after a name, and I cannot know if you are speaking the truth, only show that you have passed exams that actually don't require an enormous amount of intelligence to pass, in a narrow area. I know because I have done similar things, but I prefer to be judged on the quality and nature of my arguments rather than any claimed qualifications that cannot be verified.

I really have to disagree with your opinion. Farage is very dangerous. The ideas he espouses are clearly racist. I don't believe you have the slightest grasp of politics at all. You talk about saving the NHS. The NHS is a socialist idea. It was brought in by a left-winger called Nye Bevan. The right wing opposes this kind of thing because they oppose socialism of any kind. This is why we have seen creeping privatisation and a doctors strike under a right wing government. Farage is even more right wing than the tories are. All the MPs that have joined UKIP from the tory party are all the most right wing and the most opposed to socialist ideas. To think they would protect the NHS is nuts. He talks about saving the NHS because he knows it appeals to the poor and less educated who are the people who far right political parties always target because they lack the ability and education to see through their far mongering and racist nonsense. He only appears to run rings around people if you lack the ability to understand that he is actually talking nonsense and appealing to less able people.

It is much more likely that Trump will do something that will be grounds for impeachement and that politicians of all sides will take that chance to get rid of him as fast as they can. Even the republicans know very clearly that he is a dangerous madman. Just look how he reacts to criticism! This is what a Harvard Psychologist says about him. He is a "psychopath". Harvard Psychologist Explains Trump Is 'Dangerous' Because He's Literally a Narcissistic Psychopath - Counter Current News Anyone with any proper sense or judgement of people will know that this is correct and certainly the republican party hierarchy knows this. This is why they have done anything they can to stop him.

I see you don't want to reply to me and looking around on Google you have had real trouble defending your points when debating the issue. I really am not sure at all that you should be as confident in your beliefs as you are. For example your claim that a post mortem can positively identify PA poisoning doesn't agree with the text books. Ragwort poisoning no test can confirm ragwort poisoning 100%

It definitely sounds too good to be true to me too!

This is an old thread but I see Sue has been refering to it on social media. What do you mean by nit picking? It rather seems to me that we need to look at the bigger picture and that the equine charities have been caught out putting out false information on ragwort that sounds horrific but when investigated turns out not to be true. If the facts given out are false then the awareness raised is also false.

Pitty he didn't get the number!

I think it is a lesson to us all. Take photos of everything and store them on-line in case your computer equipment gets stolen!

In my experience it can go away on its own if it is mild anyway. It doesn';t affect all of the hand, as someone says, because that part is actually a different nerve.

I have seen incorrect statements about laws from pest control companies on a number of occasions.

Without question he has alienated himself! I am sorry the thread was derailed by this man's ranting. It is a serious question. The problem is that rich people seldom realise that being poor is not the poor people's fault. We have an insurance system in Britain that is for the welfare of the people. We have Ian Duncan Smith in charge of it and even his colleagues think he isn't smart enough. It is rather obvious to me, that he is a bit thick Inside the Coalition: Iain Duncan Smith was 'not clever enough' claimed Osborne - Telegraph

14 species in an hour is really quite good.

Numbers of butterflies aren't great this year.

Exactly. I think good old JKR deserves the money she's earned and she is well known for giving it away. Her mother dies of multiple sclerosis so they get a lot. She runs her own charitable foundation for kids. Good for her. and all the talk about socialism. Well the evidence is that she is one. A Labour Party supporter and read her books. Full of anti-prejudice and anti-racist ideas. Knocking snobs and toffs who look down on others. I think she is great. She probably needs a hedge for the privacy because of the problems she has with the gutter press.