Latest Pseudoscience from the USGS

[snakeguy101]

As some of you might know, the USGS has released several pythons into a fenced in area in South Carolina to see if they could survive the winter in such an extreme north for them. Here is the problem:
1) They dug deep artificial burrows to give them plenty of shelter
2) The pythons are all being fed by the researchers
3) The site is right next to a power plant and the water that is flowing through the site has been discharged from the cooling towers (essentially heating the enclosure).

The scientists have refused comments until publication but I think we all know where this is going.....The last anyone has heard was that the snakes were still alive.

There is no way that these animals could have survived a winter as harsh as this one with temperatures dropping down into the single digits for a week. I would be shocked if even native species did not suffer considerable die offs. What do you guys think?

 

[Accident]

I live in Sub-Tropical south Texas and they don't do so well here. We only get a few hours of freezing temps every few years. It's enough to keep them beat down totally. The only ones that do well are living in sheltered rat-rich buildings and they get caught every spring when they venture out. They might as well study the herps in the Chicago zoo, the data will be just as slanted. They are prolly worried that Global Warming is going to Tropical-ize the entire US in the next couple years. Morons.

!A

 

[Vicious_Fish]

Well they wanted to prove the point that they could survive the winters there so they got what they wanted even though they totally skewed this experimental procedure in favor of the pythons.

 

[ozz465]

Yea i agree ,these findings are garbage.

 

[davo]

Many scientists have usually already decided in their head that their theory is correct and they will do anything they can to try and skew and prove their point one way or another in their research.

 

[01C5Vert]

As some of you might know, the USGS has released several pythons into a fenced in area in South Carolina to see if they could survive the winter in such an extreme north for them. Here is the problem:
1) They dug deep artificial burrows to give them plenty of shelter
2) The pythons are all being fed by the researchers
3) The site is right next to a power plant and the water that is flowing through the site has been discharged from the cooling towers (essentially heating the enclosure).

The scientists have refused comments until publication but I think we all know where this is going.....The last anyone has heard was that the snakes were still alive.

There is no way that these animals could have survived a winter as harsh as this one with temperatures dropping down into the single digits for a week. I would be shocked if even native species did not suffer considerable die offs. What do you guys think?

Link to said report please?

 

[snakeguy101]

its not published yet and I can't find any source info on it. Here is the best I could find for you at the moment but I will keep looking for you...

http://www.venomousreptiles.org/forums/Experts/47144?page=1

note that some of the people on that forum are literally world experts such as wolfgang wuster...

 

[krzr3000]

Is there any info beyond what is being discussed in the link? Considering the topic is called "Buumese release program" ...buumese?

 

[01C5Vert]

Seems all their discussion and "fact" are pure conjecture. It will be interesting to see the final report.

 

[gigas12]

Hi,thats not proving a point,thats stupidity!