Mark,
I had the same reaction.
Since you bring it up, why don't you draft a letter and let the rest
of us suggest aditions or subtractions.
Clearly some education is in order.
-Dennis
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>> Yesterday I was delighted to open my mailbox and see protists on the
> front of a major US magazine. The cover of this month's Scientific
> American has a beautiful photograph of Japanese Star Sand, mostly the
> foraminiferan (Baculogypsina sphaerulata). Finally, protists had hit the
> primetime!
>> Imagine then my dismay when I read the article inside and they
> referred to foraminiferans as "...microscopic, single-celled
> animals.." Animals?? ANIMALS!!! If the editors of one of the most
> influential magazines for educating the public about the nature of
> science was calling forams "animals", I realized that we have our
> work cut out for us. I mean really, thanks to Mark Siddall we've
> already lost one phylum of protists this year. Are we destined to
> relinquish the foraminiferans too!!
>> Does someone more eloquent than I want to draft a letter to the
> Editor of Scientific American, or must I take on this windmill
> myself? :-)
>>> MTC,
>> Mark
> Mark A. Farmer
> Director, Ctr. Ultrastructural Research
> University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
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