Good habits come first in Science too: a reply to Straka and Starkzomski

摘要

I thank Straka and Starkzomski for their thoughts [1]. They have, however, critically misread my proposal. They state that I suggested that taxonomically-challenged studies should be “thrown out” or “dismissed”, words and concepts that I did not use [2]. Rather, I explicitly stated that authors of submitted papers should be asked to simply state how the species involved in a given study were identified, and that this action would thus “induce a critical shift in the quality of the papers,” “instantaneously highlight the papers with potential taxonomic errors,” and “elevate the excellence of the science being published.” None of these statements imply or suggest rejection of any evolutionary or ecological studies. Neither do they imply any willingness to discourage the formulation of relevant questions in ecosystems where the taxonomy is poorly known.