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Isn't a forestry handbook a "random appeal to authority"?
by donarb 8y ago
Isn't a forestry handbook a "random appeal to authority"?
- tptacek 8y agoAt the point where one of us literally called up the dude who was doing the work and asked, can we dispense with the message board rhetorical kung-fu and just have the rest of the conversation? Thanks.
- DannyBee 8y agoActually, no, it's a very very very well thought out resource that has references to where the research comes from and citations for it's data. It may come as a surprise, but this really is engineering. People have been studying wood as an engineering material for a very long time, and there are a large number of published studies on pretty much anything you can think of from drying rates to density to you name it. Take a look at https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/several_pubs.php?grouping_id=100&header_id=p https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/products/publications/several_pubs...