[southern_cross]

And most "scientific studies" that show up in such communities these days are at best only weakly supported, and may all but fall apart at the first sign of someone trying to validate their data integrity or replicate their results. Given the choice between someone sitting in a lab somewhere, maybe running computer models all day vs. the observations of someone who is pretty much hands-on, out in the field every day (like say a fisherman), who do you think I'm generally going to give the benefit of the doubt to?