Drunk_Dynasty wrote:You better go tell all the all the colleges that their fisheries departments are doing it all wrong.
Too late.....told that to plenty.
Have you ever actually read any of "the science?"
Like actually read any of these peer reviewed studies you're blindly supporting?
I've read a lot of them, and there's no worse science than wildlife science.
Example:
In "the science" behind some of Mille Lacs's management.....they sub in a component in their algorithm for population modeling/exploitable population rate of the lake's walleyes........
.....from marlin population modeling used down in the gulf.
All peer reviewed....academically accepted and approved.....
Because what you fail to realize is that when the academics are doing their circle jerk known as "peer reviewing" it's more about A + B = C, on a level as simplistic as 1 + 2 = 3.....
It's about format. Academic peer review is about how papers get formatted....proper empirical "thinking," and proper empirical citations.
It's the most insular form of fukced up thinking there is.....since it isn't about thinking....it's about formatting other people's shit into a slight twist of work that's already been done and making sure you structure it right. It's about writing shit in a computer lab while never observing the actual real world outdoor resource the bullshit paper is supposedly about.
You know how i got started down this rabbit hole?
About ten years ago, me and a buddy enjoyed trolling everyone who was bitching about the DNR on Facebook. All the pro-resort, pro-sport angler, pro-higher limits, anti-netting crowd.....were ridiculously easy to troll.
My/Our Trump Card?
We'd go back and forth and ultimately we had our Mic Drop of, "You know why I know I'm right? Because all the science is on my side of the argument! BOOM!"
And then one day....one dude eloquently told me to fukc off by explaining to me how I was a total hypocrite because I didn't have the faintest clue what the science was....had never even read a single piece of "the science" that like an idiot, I blindly used as my trump card.
And at least I was man enough to look in the mirror and go, "fukc me...he got me....he's 100% right."
So I started reading up on the science....which was hard as hell at first. I've got a BS in Sociology....have done population modeling, stats, algebra, algorithms....different animals but I knew enough to where...it wasn't the first peer reviewed studies I'd read.....
I went into learning "the science" when it came to fisheries management.......
....to defend it.
I wanted to know as much about it as I could so if ever called out again like I was.....I wouldn't be eating shit next time around.
A funny thing happened while I read and reviewed study after study after study.....
I realized how fukcing retarded it was.....just the most truly putrid science that's ever existed. Full of gaping, very obvious, critical flaws....flaws that in any other actual science that's required to produce results would be chewed up and discredited for the utter garbage it is in the blink of an eye.
So this is me calling you out and telling you to eat shit.
Let's start by you reading one fukcing peer reviewed MN fisheries study and get back to me.