David
I am disappointed to see you implying that Francis would allow any
publisher compromise his professional status, let alone suggesting he
would "promote" or "criticise" any technology without having a strong
scientifically based argument for such. Any scientist of Francis's
standing would no doubt see your comment as quite a professional slur.
I would have thought you of all people would have not let your personal
biases allow you to make such criticisms without having even read the
book.
Equally, I think you will find that the book has been peer reviewed (not
that too many people could really peer-review Francis's work).
Just to place it on the record I have both read a pre-published copy of
the book and contributed a very small part to it.
Regards
Martin Norris
-----Original Message-----
From: David Evans [mailto:david.evans@xxxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 September 2008 6:19 PM
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: RE: New book by FWMR Schwarze
<<Sadly Jo Ryan didn't have her Treesource stand at conference this
year.>>
Jo will be at the APF and does have some copies. Andrew Cowan is also
reviewing it for Essential Arb, but I think that will be a little while
coming as I understand it is a substantial tome.
Interestingly, it isn't a peer reviewed publication (though I understand
a lot of Francis' previous peer-reviewed work in journals is included)
having been published by ENSPEC, who are an Australian arboricultural
company that have organised Francis to deliver workshops over there
before. They also heavily promote and value the use of Picus. It'll be
interesting to see what it says, but I suspect it won't be heaping
praise onto the resistograph.
Cheers
Acer ventura
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