¿Es la criptozoología una ciencia?
Esa es la pregunta que se hace Ben S. Roesch en Fortean. Un interesante artículo donde el biólogo canadiense discute ciertos aspectos tanto de la ciencia como de la criptozoología, desde un punto de vista bastante objetivo, aunque virando siempre a no considerar el estudio de animales desconocidos una ciencia y a modo de respuesta a otro artículo en la misma revista de Loren Coleman, un experto criptozoólogo que, digamos, se muestra más fanático :)
Is cryptozoology a science?
This question that has long been debated between cryptozoologists and mainstream scientists. Unsurprisingly, cryptozoology is usually held to be scientific by its practitioners, including some scientists. Other scientists, however, have found it difficult to call cryptozoology a science, often with good reason – much of cryptozoology is rife with credulous thinking and illogical conclusions. Unfortunately, I find that some of these critics are overly biased in their treatment of cryptozoology, often taking stances and presenting arguments that remind me more of the very people they are criticizing than of true scientists. There are, however, some good reasons for stating that cryptozoology is not a science, or at best a very weak one. In Fortean Times 128, Loren Coleman criticized some of my arguments to this regard. I would like to take this opportunity to expound on these arguments, and respond to some of Coleman’s criticisms.
Una pena que la mayoría de la información interesante en Internet no esté traducida!
Tags: Ciencia, criptozoología
