The demonstration would be one of a series of protest actions focusing on the humanitarian aspect of the case, according to representatives of the family.
Gamboa says a more compelling demonstration would be to show that a low-ranking wasp painted to look like a queen commanded queenlike treatment from its nest mates.
Of the twelve responses, 9 sided with Snyder (privacy over speech); 2 stood by the Westboro Church, and 1 questioned the distance at which the protest was held, suggesting that the demonstration would be acceptable if an appropriate distance were maintained.
That's an interesting idea but a demonstration would be more exciting.
Instead, the opposition said a demonstration would be held in Belgrade, the capital, on Monday.
"There can be kind of a conflict between rigorous research and demonstration," says Hyrum Johnson, an ecologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Temple, Texas, and a scientific adviser to Biosphere 2. "If you want to mimic the real world," he says, "it may not be as graphic as a demonstration" would be.
In addition, only two bombs would be available at the start of August, although more were in production, and they cost billions of dollars, so using one for a demonstration would be expensive.
This may support a preference of certain phages for the lytic cycle in periodontal disease, although experimental demonstration would be necessary to prove such a phenomenon.
There is nice indirect evidence, and even a control experiment, and they are fairly convincing – but a direct demonstration would be appreciated.
