Fafnir665 said:
Buddha1, why didnt this Bruce guy publish in a peer reviewed journal first?
I remember reading somewhere that the researcher who found out about the possibility of Jesus having had relationships with men, decided to publish his findings himself. I think it was probably because he realised that the scientific institution will not do justice to his findings unless they are out in the open. He wanted to have the discussion out in the open and let scientists comment publicly upon it.
I don't know if Bruce's work have been published in a scientific peer-reviewed journal or not (I know that the journal nature has praised the book), but if he did start with the book first, I am sure his reasons were that he know how resistive the scientific world could be. That it is dead set to discredit unfairly anything that doesn't go against Darwin or heterosexuality.
Therefore, he may have wanted the debate to be out in the open, where his hard work cannot be held back by the vested interest group who control the scientific world.
I find that perfectly a reasonable thing to do in a world unreasonably controlled by Darwinism and heterosexual ideology. Don't forget that it is a world that easily dismisses two females having orgasmic sex as "preparing for a heterosexual mating" --- and it is called 'scientific' to say that.
Let's face it --- the peers comprise of the vested interest group, who will never let Darwinism be challenged --- by hook or crook. And Bagemihl decided to take the 'match' in the public arena, which is outside the 'home turf' of the peers (read vested interest group). So peers will find it more difficult to get away with their lies. In a peer-reviewed journal it was almost impossible to challenge Darwin.
That is no reason to discredit his work without any evidences.
The thing to understand is that he is only telling us what he found out from the documented works of other scientists. Most of his book is not about his first hand experience. But what other scientists have documented. It is difficult to discredit that or to assign motives to that.
Besides, his work has come out unsheathed even after so many years and has had the respect of many accredited scientist.
IF BAGEMIHL IS FAKE HOW COME HE COMMANDS SO MUCH RESPECT AND STILL A RESPECTED PROFESSOR AT A REPUTED UNIVERSITY.