Re: I told my LFS about EI
travdawg said:
I guess unless you really get out & look for it, there just isnt alot of knowledge in regards to the hobby... Even those that are in it pay little attention to it.
I worked for years for the Iowa House of Representatives on their Research Staff ... I used to write a weekly column titled
"What We Know That Isn't So" ...
I often used the column to debunk "rules of thumb" and what people thought were "factual assumptions" ...
I often stepped on all kinds of toes because I would debunk myths of "Those In The Know" ...
Even in a wide variety of online planted aquarium communities, we have a lot of "What We Know That Isn't So" ...
You can't blame many of the people, because most people are honestly working from the best information that they have available to them ...
It was only a decade ago that most of us were working from the assumption that limiting phosphate was an effective method of limiting algae ... it was the best information most of us had at the time ...
As our knowledge increased, "factual assumptions" change as we learn more ...
This is actually what the Barr Report is all about ... an environment dedicated to providing a more in depth analysis and discussion of the science and theory underlying our hobby ...
So to each of you ... I say THANKS ... because the knowledge that you glean here and the increased understanding that we all develop together as we read and learn from Mr. Barr ... together, we will contribute to spreading the next generation of "public knowledge" ... because you are the future of what the "public" will know ...
Greg