Tuesday, July 31, 2007

If it's Wednesday, then the Gazette editorial must be lying

Or Monday, ho hum:

In a July 29 editorial advocating the denial of federal Endangered Species Act protections for the Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse, The Gazette of Colorado Springs asserted that there was "flimsy scientific basis for the mouse's original listing." To support its claim, The Gazette pointed to a 2005 study by biologist and former Denver Museum of Nature & Science curator Rob Roy Ramey that, according to a September 6, 2006, Rocky Mountain News article, suggested "the Colorado-dwelling Preble's mouse is nearly identical to other meadow jumping mice and doesn't deserve the special protections it enjoys as a 'threatened' subspecies under the Endangered Species Act." However, while the Gazette editorial indicated that a subsequent study refuted Ramey's findings, it omitted that a government-commissioned, independent scientific review panel -- after analyzing both Ramey's study and the later study by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) biologist Dr. Tim King -- unanimously concluded that "the weight of evidence" supported the "threatened" subspecies designation for the mouse.

Those poor Media Matters analysts. I hope they get a million dollar bonus from George Soros for having to read Sean Paige's leavings every day.

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