The editorial in the February issue of the scientific journal Cladistics reads Phylogenetic data sets submitted to this journal should be analysed using parsimony.
Twitter Nerd-Fight Reveals a Long, Bizarre Scientific Feud
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If alternative methods give different results and the author prefers an unparsimonious topology, he or she is welcome to present that result, but should be prepared to defend it on philosophical grounds.
That did not go over well.
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They said if you want to use another method, you have to show that it’s philosophically better, not scientifically better, says Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist at UC Davis. That’s why I said it seems like they’re dropping science for dogma.
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