Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding 'Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil‑based scientific data': Myanmar amber

Recently, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) has sent around a letter, dated 21st April, 2020 to more than 300 palaeontological journals, signed by the President, Vice President and a former President of the society (Rayfield et al. 2020). The signatories of this letter request significant...

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Autores: Haug, Joachim T., Azar, Dany, Ross, Andrew, Szwedo, Jacek, Wang, Bo, Arillo, Antonio, Baranov, Viktor, Bechteler, Julia, Beutel, Rolf, Blagoderov, Vladimir, Delclòs Martínez, Xavier, Dunlop, Jason, Feldberg, Kathrin, Feldmann, Rodney, Foth, Christian, Fraaije, René H.B., Gehler, Alexander, Harms, Danilo, Hedenäs, Lars, Hy ný, Matú, Jagt, John W. M., Jagt, Elena A., Regalado, Ledis, Jarzembowski, Ed, Kerp, Hans, Khine, Phyo Kay, Kirejtshuk, Alexander G., Klug, Christian, Kopylov, Dmitry S., Kotthoff, Ulrich, Kriwet, Jürgen, McKellar, Ryan C., Nel, André, Neumann, Christian, Nützel, Alexander, Peñalver Mollá, Enrique, Perrichot, Vincent, Pint, Anna, Ragazzi, Eugenio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/175747
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/175747
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Patrimoni geològic
Ambre
Cretaci
Geological heritage
Amber
Cretaceous Period
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Sumario:Recently, the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) has sent around a letter, dated 21st April, 2020 to more than 300 palaeontological journals, signed by the President, Vice President and a former President of the society (Rayfield et al. 2020). The signatories of this letter request significant changes to the common practices in palaeontology. With our present, multi-authored comment, we aim to argue why these suggestions will not lead to improvement of both practice and ethics of palaeontological research but, conversely, hamper its further development. Although we disagree with most contents of the SVP letter, we appreciate this initiative to discuss scientific practices and the underlying ethics. Here, we consider different aspects of the suggestions by Rayfield et al. (2020) in which we see weaknesses and dangers. It is our intent to compile views from many different fields of palaeontology, as our discipline is (and should remain) pluralistic. This contribution deals with the aspects concerning Myanmar amber. Reference is made to Haug et al. (2020a) for another comment on aspects concerning amateur palaeontologists/citizen scientists/private collectors.

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