John Sessions Quotations

We all support students. They came to school to learn. What we disagreed with was a poorly done study.

Counting how many seedlings you have doesn't give you the information about whether they're well-distributed, or whether you have to add more. All foresters know that.

Science is a big organization, and its not clear the board members understand how important peer review is and that it does fail.

It is unfortunate that the letter to Science magazine received widespread media attention. The letter was a request by nine university and forest science scientists, who are familiar with the subject area and geographic area, to clarify and strengthen a paper that had obviously inadequate peer review by Science magazine before it became part of the scientific record.