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On an unrelated search I came across this little gem: Tarantulas secrete silk from their feet.
It was published in a peer reviewed and respected journal. Nevertheless it's of course a load of unmentionable things from a bull and I was ROTFLMAO reading it.
I just put it here for entertainment and to give a fantastic example of why people shouldn't believe things just because a scientific paper said so, not even a peer reviewed on. People on here tend to say: "It was scientifically published, therefor it must be true" much too often. A scientific result is only valid if it has been repeated a few times by independent researchers. And if scientists publish an opinion there's even less reason to 'believe' them. I mean this recent Avicularia revision put Heteroscodra in subfamily Aviculariinae and there's no way I'll buy that.
That publication above gave Dr. Perez-Miles on the other hand the opportunity to publish this neat refutation (in the same journal...)
It was published in a peer reviewed and respected journal. Nevertheless it's of course a load of unmentionable things from a bull and I was ROTFLMAO reading it.
I just put it here for entertainment and to give a fantastic example of why people shouldn't believe things just because a scientific paper said so, not even a peer reviewed on. People on here tend to say: "It was scientifically published, therefor it must be true" much too often. A scientific result is only valid if it has been repeated a few times by independent researchers. And if scientists publish an opinion there's even less reason to 'believe' them. I mean this recent Avicularia revision put Heteroscodra in subfamily Aviculariinae and there's no way I'll buy that.
That publication above gave Dr. Perez-Miles on the other hand the opportunity to publish this neat refutation (in the same journal...)