Cladism (cladistics) is the opposite to science, that is, consistently wrong. It is an expression of biological systematics’ erroneous assumption that kinds exist, being applied as an axiom, which have screwed bunch of biological systematists to turning the whole thing (i.e., our discussion about reality) up-side-down and in-side-out. In this position they think they have found a new paradigm; they just can’t agree about which. They are standing in the midst of nowhere, jointly taking stand against phenetics and mutually taking stand against each other, without any possibility of finding a balanced position by their denial of such a thing (see Paraphyly watch on Malte Ebach’s blog). They’re experiencing the destiny of fundamentalists: split by oppressing or getting oppressed. For or against, black or white.
Before cladism, biological systematics was about for or against certain classifications, but after cladism it is about for or against cladism, that is, against or for science: cladism generically representing a choice between black and white (denying the gray scale), and science representing the moderate acceptance of the gray scale (with the abstract endpoints black and white). Cladism turned biological systematics from a scientific classification war into an ideological war: for or against cladism (and thus against or for science), There is no neutral point between the two.
I choose science. What do you choose?
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