Editorial

Staff · Issue 96, May/Jun 2017 · pp. 4

Editorial Peter Rowlands peter@uwpmag.com People v Science Bob Halstead’s excellent article questioning the accuracy of the extent of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef certainly gives food for thought and I am sure will generate a response from the scientific community. My take on things is a scientific study may not be as accurate as data fedback from boots on the ground or, in our case, flippers underwater. I was reminded about this when I had a social conversation with a marine biologist who was banging on about how a particular piece of marine life was ‘extremely rare’ in the Plymouth area. I didn’t have the heart to tell them that we had seen several examples of this species on our dives in a particular area and it was in a very wide area of that particular area, if you get my drift. I am not in the scientific community and fully expect to get shot down by those who are but …