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Any paleontologists on /sci/?

Do you work for a museum? Oil industry? Writer?

What undergraduate degree do you have? Biology? Geology?

Yea I know, shit-tier, make shit up all the time, barely science, blah, blah.

>> No.6655781

>>6655776
Doctor Scott the paleontologist works for Dinosaur Train.

>> No.6655782

>>6655776
>barely science
Really? People are saying that?

>> No.6655790

>>6655782

It sounds like something /sci/ would say about paleontology.

>> No.6655808

>>6655790
I haven't seen paleontology discussed much on /p/, but it's basically just a hash of geology and biology, and just as rigorous as those.

>inb4 people spray shit on any science that you can't do without leaving your basement

>> No.6655869

>6655782

A lot of the conclusions we seem to be comfortable drawing about organisms living a hundred million years ago are nowhere near up to the level of the scientific method.

>> No.6655884

>>6655869
How familiar are you with actual paleontology? I'm not one myself, but I study in a tangentially related field, so I find myself learning a lot about it anyway. From what I've seen, paleontology is largely a very cautious and evidence based affair, and is usually the absolute first to make clear when they're unsure of certain information. However, the news, documentaries, pop science, magazines, etc. like to blow up paleontology findings into sensationalist nonsense by replacing every "might" in a paper with "definitely".

>> No.6656205

Bump.

>> No.6656424

>>6655869
>6655782
newfag detected

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>> No.6660165

>>6655884
I am a geologist, that is moving into palaeontology sort of.

A lot of palaeontology is anatomy, pretty much describing stuff.

Eventually these descriptions can be use to make predictions and identify specific conditions= economic revelance.

An example is use of palynology in the oil industry.

Millions of dollars a minute are spent based on conclusions made but palynologist (specialization within palaeontology)