Comments on: Jane Goodall, Extremists,The Daily Show

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Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:33:46 +0000

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By: MaryHaight

MaryHaight — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:51:45 +0000

I was in a state of disbelief at the whole birthday tempest…there are those who enjoy lying in wait waiting for someone of Goodall's stature to make what they see as a wrong move and jump on them as if it's a point game. Goodall is so impressive in her humility and so compassionate to her detractors. ( If you didn't catch the Moyers piece, there are several available online.) What is true is that none us knows or remembers everything correctly all the time, as your further comment notes. I wonder though if at some point in the fight that the government didn't seem to be siding with Koford, and that's what she's thinking of. (As with the mandatory spay neuter bill that seemed like a lock in Chicago and then wasn't) But you would have had to have been there… Thanks for adding your knowledge to the discussion.

By: EmilyS

EmilyS — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:44:05 +0000

though ironically, she misspeaks about the condor restoration efforts. It was certain environmental extremists, not the government, who didn't want the remaining birds to be captured for breeding, on the grounds that to do so was "unnatural".

By: EmilyS

EmilyS — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:40:41 +0000

Dr. Goodall is as close to a saint as we have living in the world today. She is as compassionate towards humans as to non-human animals. If you read what she's written about the use of non-human animals in research, for example, you could not fail to appreciate this. People who criticize her, especially about trivia like birthday cakes, are childish