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Exactly Nancy,

But it seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.

I mean, those crooks tell Chris that he has to build personal brands and he goes on the Internet and makes everything about himself public!

I believe we should bring this up at our next meeting. He might not be our only patient victim of such on-line abuse.

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

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Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley

Exactly,

But it seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.

I mean, those crooks tell Chris that he has to build personal brands and he goes on the Internet and makes everything about himself public!

I believe we should bring this up at our next meeting. He might not be our only patient victim of such on-line abuse.

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

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Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley

Exactly Nancy,

But it seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.

I mean, those crooks tell Chris that he has to build personal brands and he goes on the Internet and makes everything about himself public!

I believe we should bring this up at our next meeting. He might not be our only patient victim of such on-line abuse.

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

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Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley

Please get of your high horse. What do you say to this? https://www.researchgate.net/p...

Exactly Nancy,

But it seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.

I mean, those crooks tell Chris that he has to build personal brands and he goes on the Internet and makes everything about himself public!

I believe we should bring this up at our next meeting. He might not be our only patient victim of such on-line abuse.

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

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Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley

How many errors are due to C syntax, e.g. "=" vs "=="?

At what point do we finally decide that C just wasn't the best choice for large scale long lived systems?

(And don't tell me about "experts don't make those mistakes". See, for instance https://www.researchgate.net/p... )

Where America is missing is we still have LOADS of old homes from pre WWII, which Europe does not

Seriously?

as in pozzolanic cements, fiber reinforced steel-free construction?
French experiments and real-world installations show us the way to 35% lower CO2 impact but NOT while concrete is a mob controlled business backed by risk averse, antiquated civil engineering.,br>

Actually, most forest management is driven by logging interests, even in California, because these are National Forest Service lands. Also, the areas that are burning are not logging forests, they are mostly Chaparral and Oak: https://www.researchgate.net/p...

no, these have been going on since algae has existed

imagining "x or y might increase the severity" without a shred of proof is just scare mongering.

seriously, these are natural. they've been going on since algae existed...for *billions* of years!

Read this news. Want more? Here is another one for you. When you said "without a shred of proof," it demonstrates that you are ignorant because there are plenty of "shred of proof" but you aren't trying to even look for one.

Apparently, NASA scientist, Lori Fenton looked at two different images of Mars taken 22 years apart (1977 and 1999), and determined that there appears to have been a temperature change of 0.65 degrees in between the two images. That appears to be the source of the global warming on Mars myth.

As an aside a friend once told me that Sahara sand is worthless, not necessarily in the context of making silicon but in general. I'm curious what it's not good at (or perhaps good at) e.g. is Sahara sand or other desert bad for making concrete?

A couple of minutes of searching revealed that desert sand can be too round, too small, or too consistent in size to be good for making concrete.

It's not an either or situation; even if we reduce regulation to the point that we have one fukushima-scale disaster every decade it would still be better than the amount of harm we're causing with fossil fuels. This is a case of selective risk aversion; you would rather have more cumulative harm caused on a daily basis than have one really big disaster every generation or so. It's stupid.

The real problem with nuclear accidents is the mass hysteria that follows and the extreme overreaction to harmless amounts of radiation. It takes a lot of radiation exposure to do harm.

Luckily we don't even need to lower regulation that much though; there are plenty of things which could be done to massively reduce all the regulatory and legal hurdles without compromising safety.

Present regulations are based on the dis-proven LNT hypothesis, and responsible for the tragedy that followed the Fukushima accident. The excessive forced evacuation that killed ~1600 people could have been avoided entirely if the regulations were based on sound science. There may be another accident eventually; how many times must we repeat this?

The data (and there is a lot) clearly shows that low level radiation is harmless or even beneficial. The LNT model in common use isn't conservative, it is actively harmful.

I'll take "things that never happened" for $590, Alex.

Detection of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Spp. (VRE) from Poultry

Persistence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci in New Zealand Broilers after Discontinuation of Avoparcin Use

BENEFITS OF DIETARY ANTIBIOTIC AND MANNANOLIGOSACCHARIDE SUPPLEMENTATION FOR POULTRY which says: The specific vanA gene cluster that encodes for vancomycin resistance has been isolated from Enterococcus faecium in farm animals destined for human consumption (Bates et al., 1994; Klare et al., 1995).

The not-so-secret fact of the matter is AMBER alerts are completely pointless and a giant waste of time and money.

https://www.researchgate.net/b...

However, "think of the children" and all that.

Fatigue life of the tower is typically around 40 years or so... You'll need to tear it down and start again at that time. So if you get 25-30 years out of a tower, and it's time to retrofit, it is probably cost-effective to bring the whole thing down and start from scratch, rather than retrofit the blades and generator and then have to demo the entire thing in half the life-span of the new components.

Exactly Nancy,

It seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.

I mean, those crooks tell Chris that he has to build personal brands and he goes on the Internet and makes everything about himself public!

I believe we should bring this up at our next meeting. He might not be our only patient victim of such on-line abuse.

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

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Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley

Exactly Nancy, thanks!

But it seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.

I mean, those crooks tell Chris that he has to build personal brands and he goes on the Internet and makes everything about himself public!

I believe we should bring this up at our next meeting. He might not be our only patient victim of such on-line abuse.

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

--
Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley

Exactly,

It seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.

I mean, those crooks tell Chris that he has to build personal brands and he goes on the Internet and makes everything about himself public!

I believe we should bring this up at our next meeting. He might not be our only patient victim of such on-line abuse.

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

--
Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley

And if there is a lot more seawater, there is a lot more yellow cake.

if there is more seawater, it will have come from ice melt. Glaciers seem high in radon, but in looking around it seems that they are lower in uranium than seawater. (Sorry, I couldn't find a good figure for glacial uranium content. Seawater is around 3 ppb.) So actually, it seems like if there is more seawater, there will not be a lot more yellow cake, just a bit more — and the rest will be harder to get out.

Exactly Nancy,

It seems like Chris is a victim here. He keeps on reading those SEO, youtube algorithm, basically get rich quick sites. He doesn't realize that he is the fish for them since they make money off him with their own schemes. Then, he wastes his time trying to implement what those sites suggest and he ends up disturbing people.

I mean, those crooks tell Chris that he has to build personal brands and he goes on the Internet and makes everything about himself public!

I believe we should bring this up at our next meeting. He might not be our only patient victim of such on-line abuse.

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

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Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley

Please read my publication:
https://www.researchgate.net/p...
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Silvia Bunge
Psychology Department
University of California, Berkeley

Nope Chris, Silvia is the nicest person I have ever met. Your stubbornness is an amazing phenomenon that we have been studying for a while here at UC Berkeley.

Now, you can view her serious book about the topic here, no "trolling" involved except your own:
https://www.researchgate.net/p...

Growing up in a poor family can leave a mark on
the developing brain. Understanding how and why
has important implications for educators and society

We have nothing against you Chris, you are just interesting to watch and you make us progress in our research.

About myself, I am a student and her principal assistant.
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Mark Bunge

Sorry mate, you're wrong.

All developed countries offer private medical services for those who can pay. UK, all of the EU countries, Australia, SA, NZ, etc... the rich people in those countries do not tolerate being "...in pain for months before you get much less expensive treatment."

Yes, the public service will triage all cases, and this means some patients have to wait. But their conditions are not life-threatening and they will eventually be fixed. Yes, this results in some gnashing of teeth over where the line is drawn, and living with a hernia for 12 months does indeed suck monkey balls, but it's not going to kill you, and if any complication flares up you'll be fixed immediately.

" wealthy people who fly into the u.s. from all over the world for treatment."

OK, yes, I also see the media reports on this from time to time. But I can't help but see these as a small number of high publicity cases, pushed to the forefront by university and hospital PR departments to help secure the next round of funding.

So I went looking for some numbers and found this page. These are the "top destinations" listed: "Costa Rica, India, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United States"

So well done, the US made that list, but it shares it with a bunch of others...make of it what you will... This paper may provide more info, but I don't have time to read it, sorry...

I've experienced it too. It has nothing to do with biting. It's due to a galvanic reaction between the metal in the cutlery and the fillings in your teeth. If you have fillings, and there's sufficient saliva in your mouth, and the cutlery and your fillings are far enough apart on the galvanic series, it creates a weak electrical current through your mouth and teeth which feels awful. I only noticed it when I visited a friend who served me a meal with "fancy" gold-plated cutlery, but I would imagine different people are sensitive to different levels of current.

It's similar to chewing on aluminum foil if you have fillings, except in that case the aluminum makes direct contact with your fillings so the current is much higher.

It was presented at the Space Propulsion 2018 conference.

In the USA, Amber alerts are largely ineffective, and most cases where they do result in a "missing" child being recovered involve custody disputes, rather than kidnappings by potential malefactors ...

Using statics for the effectiveness of Amber Alerts from AmberAlerts.gov is a little like going to JimBeam.com and expecting them to tell you the less savory statistics on alcohol abuse and drunk driving. While it no doubt does some good, most impartial assessments of the Amber Alert system have shown it to be at best a miss-allocation of resources (often only effective in custodial disputes where the child isn't in danger) and at worse a thinly veiled attempt at security theater.

Slate
ResearchGate.net
Washington Post

Re: "Are you truly suggesting that we shouldn't have banned CFCs because of... solar cycles?"

Please observe this image detailing the structure of the electrical currents which travel in and out of the Earth's poles. There is a lot of complexity to the Earth's magnetosphere, and the poles are where all of this electrical plasma activity interacts with the Earth.

Nobody should be pretending that they know what should be happening in these regions at this point. It's too early even today for all of that posturing; it was even more so back in the 80's.

"There have been multiple studies proving piracy does increase sales" linking to actual studies would help.

The parent is probably referring to Cammaerts et al., 2013. That study had poor methodology, as described in Parry et al., 2014.

I have a small solar panel that I bought at Fry's for an experiment. I've been trying to use it to run a webcam from my roof patio. It failed miserably. This winter there were something like a week maybe of sunshine in total.

https://www.researchgate.net/f... - you can see that on average Seattle is reasonable, but it totally fails during winter. And winter is the time of outages when the backup power is important.

It is not: https://www.researchgate.net/p...

Seriously. And "small on a chip"? What is that nonsense? Ever heard of chips being put into cases and being fitted with leads?
With minimal effort, I found a source that says around 200uA current through a memresistor. That is well within range what you can handle entirely manually on macroscopic scale: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/doc...

I think this "memresistor" thing is just another instance of people with no clue seeing the philosopher's stone finally being found.

Incidentally, I am not the only one that has noticed that calling memresistors "passive" is bullshit, although that is intuitively clear to anybody with actual experience with electronics :

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

...about climate change and CO2 emissions, a paper published last August (Seroussi et al. 2017) demonstrated that a mantle plume under Western Antartica is heating the region. NASA JPL news release of Helene Seroussi's paper : https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/... Full research paper (not paywalled): https://www.researchgate.net/p... Interesting that the Gardner paper in The Cryosphere makes no mention of mantle plumes (a least a quick search for both words turned up zero results). Since both authors are at JPL you would think that Alex Gardener would be aware of Helen Seroussi's 2017 paper and at least mentioned it.

Research paper doesn't agree with wikipedia
https://www.researchgate.net/p...

I think this past year has had a long list of studies concerning confirmation bias in science. Right here on this website too. - Cholesterol in food = Cholesterol in your arteries = heart disiease https://www.researchgate.net/p... One of the studies on Confirmation bias: http://www.pnas.org/content/11...

You are an idiot - http://healthland.time.com/201... and https://www.researchgate.net/p.... In fact simply do the search yourself https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stre.... Stupid is as stupid does and they have been quite stupid.

I would post studies showing Aliens causing the same damage but it's classified and they would find me.

You are an idiot - http://healthland.time.com/201... and https://www.researchgate.net/p.... In fact simply do the search yourself https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stre.... Stupid is as stupid does and they have been quite stupid.

Not surprisingly, there are not many official studies on this particular topic. Here is a link to one.

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

This hurricane season is notable mainly because a hurricane hadn't made landfall on the U.S. since 2005 (which ironically after Katrina and Wilma, is when people were saying that due to climate change, multiple major hurricanes hitting the U.S. each year was going to be the new norm). That's pretty incredible when you consider that the historical average for the U.S. over 164 years has been 1.73 hurricanes per year making landfall. We basically missed out on being hit by 21 hurricanes in a row.

The average North Atlantic hurricane season sees 10.1 named storms, 5.9 becoming hurricanes, and 2.5 becoming major hurricanes (category 3+). These things tend to be cyclical though, with a few decades with below average storms, followed by a few decades of above average storms, repeat. The prediction for the season was 11-17 named storms, 5-9 hurricanes, and 2-4 major hurricanes. We're almost to the end of the season and currently at 14 named storms, 9 hurricanes, and 5 major hurricanes. Just slightly above predicted.

In terms of number of global cyclones (it is after all called global warming), the North Atlantic is the only basin which has seen an uptick in hurricanes the last couple decades. The East Pacific is flat. Typhoons in West Pacific are mostly flat with a slight downward trend. The South Pacific is down. As are cyclones inthe Indian Ocean.

If we can go an unprecedented 12 years without a hurricane making landfall in the U.S., can you just for a tiny moment consider the possibility that what happened this year was random before jumping to the conclusion that it was due to climate change? (FWIW, I'm of the opinion that climate change adds more energy to the system, increasing not just maximum intensity but also variability. The recent 12 years without a hurricane can mostly be attributed to a very strong El Nino which had the side-effect of reducing the probability of Atlantic hurricanes reaching the higher latitudes like the U.S. However, this being a hypothesis, the burden of proof is upon me. The null hypothesis - the theory that one assumes is true absent statistically significant evidence for an alternative - has to be that there has bee no change in number or intensity of hurricanes. You can get yourself into a lot of trouble if you go hog wild on every theory which has a tiny bit of correlative (but not statistically significant) empirical support. Of such things, conspiracy theories are made.)

The claims of the publishers (advised by their lawyers of course) are a bit exaggerated. For those not familiar with ResearchGate (RG), it is primarily a database for academics a researchers and not a general purpose social media site like e.g. Google+ or LinkedIn. Each member can enter a profile, their domains of expertise, links to their published papers, and upload published and non-published papers.

Researchers having the slightest clue about what copyright is according to journals, and the legal trouble they might get into, take special care and upload versions of their paper which are not copyrighted (usually meaning not the versions typeset by the journals and containing their logos), like the pdf export of their WinWord or LaTeX manuscripts. Of course, most researchers prefer the easy way and upload the pdf versions as distributed by the publishers to their digital journal subscribers, an action which can be considered and probably is a copyright infringement. So the whole case has similarities with the war against torrent sites, the difference being that the allegedly infringing materials are uploaded by their respective authors.

In addition, the papers are not "freely available" as claimed, but accessible only to members of RG. This detail of course may not be important from a legal standpoint, since theoretically anybody can become a member. However, the common meaning of "freely available" is free as in Slashdot, where all content is available to everybody, no subscription required.

Finally, I have not seen any advertisement in any of the 1-2 emails per week I get from RG and I don't see any browsing their website. Just go to their front page https://www.researchgate.net/ and you will see no ads, only quotes by newspapers and magazines praising their work. Can this be considered as advertisement? Not unless ResearchGate is actually being paid by Forbes, New York Times, Bloomberg, Reuters or Science Magazine to use their quotes.

It's going to be a long legal battle involving all the known and unknown legal gray areas and precedents, and unfortunately RG is probably going to be treated worse than Kim DotCom. Sad days for Science and more generally, the human quest for knowledge. Let's hope the Universities, Colleges and Research Centers worldwide (who do profit from the free publicity from RG) will take a side and not prefer to stay neutral.

It is true that people are very likely to judge a given policy based on a large extent whether it came from their own party or an opposing party. And this isn't just US specific or political party specific; it even happens in other disputes. See for example https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249728513_Reactive_Devaluation_of_an_Israeli_vs_Palestinian_Peace_Proposal where Israelis and Palestinians would react positively or negatively to the same peace proposal simply based on who they were told had made the proposal in question. However, even given that this is a widespread thing, Trump's behavior has been far more extreme than that. Obama and W. Bush for example did roll back rules, regulations, and policies each made by their predecessor from the other party, but not nearly as extensively as Trump is doing. There really is a massive difference in scope here. And that's occurred even as Trump has made very few novel legislative or regulatory moves (other than just massive attempts at deregulation).

68%? Seriously, even the "worst" possible statistics within the US are ~50%. But overall population is ~37% which is pretty much on-par with the rest of the world: https://www.researchgate.net/p...

In Europe you even have in-cell phone and entertainment systems but recidivism statistics are the same.

Present evidence for that, please. The drastically lower incarceration rates there suggest to me that they're not having to re-arrest people as much. Norway is the country best known for having comfy prisons, and it looks like their recidivism rate is 20% compared to the USA's 36%: https://www.researchgate.net/p...

Of course it's very hard to find useful stats to compare since the nature of the crimes involved varies by country.

What makes you think corporations becoming larger than the government will happen? That's one of many things that anti-competition law is designed to prevent.

Are you sarcastic? I'm sure you are!

• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/295938213_Multinational_corporations_A_new_global_dimension_-_Corporations_bigger_than_governments
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/234/the-rise-of-corporations
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/51/corporations-and-human-rights
• https://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/52/pharmaceutical-corporations-and-medical-research
• https://archive.skoll.org/2011/02/21/corporations-are-more-powerful-than-governments/
• https://www.businessinsider.com/25-corporations-bigger-tan-countries-2011-6?op=1
• https://business.time.com/2012/01/27/are-companies-more-powerful-than-countries/
• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/5-myths-about-big-business-vs-big-government/
• https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16598-focus-monsanto-protection-act-proves-corporations-more-powerful-than-government
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/54/tax-avoidance-and-havens-undermining-democracy
• https://makewealthhistory.org/2014/02/03/the-corporations-bigger-than-nations/
• https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/02/control-nation-states-corporations-autonomy-neoliberalism
• http://www.confrontcorporatepower.org/how-corporations-influence-the-government/
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/03/15/these-25-companies-are-more-powerful-than-many-countries-multinational-corporate-wealth-power/

South Korea is also known as "Republic of Samsung":

• http://articles.latimes.com/2005/sep/25/business/fi-samsung25
• https://ipezone.blogspot.com/2008/04/dismantling-of-republic-of-samsung.html
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-s-korea-the-republic-of-samsung/2012/12/09/71215420-3de1-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html

And those trying to tie hurricanes in with climate change invariably focus on the North Atlantic because that's the storm basin whose recent history fits their desired narrative. Meanwhile, storm frequency in the East Pacific is flat. The West Pacific is mostly flat with a recent slight downward trend. The South Pacific is down, as is the North Indian Ocean.

It should be noted that most climate change models currently don't predict a significant increase in the number of hurricanes in a season. This was not true in the past but we get better with modeling over time so its not surprising. Most do however predict that the storms will be larger on average. That part seems to be holding worldwide.

We haven't had two Cat 4 hurricanes hit for more than a century. The increase in water temp is increasing the power of the storms, and we should expect this to continue. That doesn't mean every storm will be Cat 4/5 or that every season will be worse than the last. Just that the frequency of high-power storms will increase. Again, we haven't had landfall of two Cat 4 storms in 100 years, so Harvey and Irma are definitely unusual.

The last time two Cat 4+ storms made landfall in the North Atlantic was 2008. Gustav hit Cuba as a Cat 4. And Ike hit Great Inagua Island and Grand Turk Island as a Cat 4. (Paloma hit Cat 4 just south of Cuba, but dropped to a Cat 2 before landfall.)

If you mean landfall in the U.S., well the U.S. lies at the extreme northern edge of hurricane territory. So you're basically just counting outliers if you're only counting U.S. hurricanes. They're too infrequent and random to draw reliable stats from. With modern satellite coverage and flights into major storms to get precise measurements, there's no reason not to use the entire database of every storm that forms in the North Atlantic.

And those trying to tie hurricanes in with climate change invariably focus on the North Atlantic because that's the storm basin whose recent history fits their desired narrative. Meanwhile, storm frequency in the East Pacific is flat. The West Pacific is mostly flat with a recent slight downward trend. The South Pacific is down, as is the North Indian Ocean.

Only the North Atlantic has seen a slight uptick in hurricanes the last 15 years. The eastern North Pacific has been pretty flat. Tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean have been down. As have cyclones in the South Pacific (off Australia). And cyclones in the western North Pacific have been mostly flat with a recent downward trend.

So if you cherry-pick your data from just the one storm basin which fits your preconceived expectations and ignore all the others, yes hurricanes have been increasing in frequency and intensity.

The best solution is to have a professional society that elects boards to review submissions for official taxonomical names. If it is true that there are just a few bad actors, they can be blacklisted and their names circulated to the media at large, preventing them from claiming the right to name a new "discovery" that they are attempting to hijack from another researcher or group. The society could also publish clear rules about naming and who has the right to name. Once it is clearly delineated, violators can be rightly blacklisted from ever making official, new names.

I suspect, though it is not spelled out in the article that this is likely not much of a problem in the US or Europe, but in other regions of the world where there is less funding and more pressure on scientists to produce results, and less penalty for stealing other people's research.

Actually, this conflict of taxonomical naming has been going on for a quite a while already. There is something that TFA doesn't point out and it seems to be quite a red flag to me.

From TFA:

According to the official record of species names, governed by the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), the snake belongs to the genus Spracklandus. What you don’t know is that almost no taxonomists use that name. Instead, most researchers use the unofficial name that pops up in Wikipedia and most scientific journal articles: Afronaja.

I have searched the word "Spracklandus" related to snake and I found this Conference Paper - January 2015. One interesting point is that the paper is attacking the person who was pushing the word "Spracklandus" to become an official snake genus. Now who is doing the real vandalism??? I don't know...

https://www.researchgate.net/p...

Note from effectively ground zero in 1905, horses dropped steeply after peaking in 1915. Cars had replaced 2/3 of them in 10 years, and virtually all of them by 1930. Robots could replace most human workers over a 10 year period, and virtually all in 15 years. Change can happen very quickly.

https://eh.net/encyclopedia/ec...
I agree with your point on tractors. While the decline was relentless, horses held on longer on farms to about 1960 as you indicated. I had read text to the effect that the tractor was responsible for more horse replacements but not the time frame (45 instead of 15 years). Most horses today are pets.

http://www.imh.org/exhibits/on...