Kalkbreath":blrjdbew said:
Why would Cervino stop mid testing just because his grant ran out?
Perhaps neither party liked the results?
or the real focus has always been about the grants not the reefs?
Kalk,
I am somewhat familiar with what went on.
Clove oil has been suggested for quite a while.
There have been documented effects on corals, none of them good. Some spotty bleaching, followed by seeming recovery. In other words, much less effect than cyanide, where bleaching is typically followed by tissue death.
The evidence is all observational on the reef stuff, simple to deduce cause and effect.
When it comes to strict scientific experimental evidence that would conclusively prove that clove oil would be detrimental to corals, the controlled experiments have not been done (to my knowledge).
Grants are meant to fund specific research. Controlled science requires a lot of time, preparation, space, and money. If these are allocated for what the grant specified, that would explain why the money wasn't spent for something outside the grant, your insinuations not withstanding.
Regards.
Mike Kirda