The internet began for me in the Spring of 1992. After a talk, I wrote my first hypertext document, probably for Xmosaic, followed later by documents for Netscape, etc. The concern was that as a "published" document it might be subject to laws of liable. Oral expressions are subject to laws of slander.

It has been said that plagiarism is stealing an idea from one person or as Goggle AI puts it:

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Yes, plagiarizing is essentially stealing someone else's ideas or work and presenting it as your own without proper credit. It's a form of intellectual theft and a violation of academic integrity

What does it have to say about research?

“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”

― Steven Wright"

So the following is a private communication in response to

my blog about Arrowheads

I personally think that the notion of "research is an act of stealing" is based on ignorance rather than on actual research experience. However, maybe I am out of touch with the current situation in which a politician can declare that Lyme disease is not a disease to be covered by provincial health insurance.

In any event the first part of the private communication stated:

"I enjoyed your description of events but there was one slight modification in terms of what one sees: the two types of flowers are female and bisexual. The anthered flowers have seeds buried in the center of the flower surrounded by yellow anthers. "

Let me try to illustrate what the author, Dr EW Larson, meant:

So a second communication arrived later that afternoon and I quote:

"The history of recognition of bisexual anthered Arrowhead is this: In an accepted manual of plant species descriptions it states that "occasionally " flowers with anthers are bisexual (meaning that they contain seeds). My "discovery" is that every flower with anthers has seeds at its centre! So you are right that your Google results produced the usual idea of unisexual anthered plants. Ontario Arrowheads have been studied with respect to sexuality in dozens of articles and at least one professor at Trent refuses to accept this information, even when I sent him photos with arrows pointing to seeds and anthers in the same flower. I read a recent PhD thesis from his lab which followed her professor's bias. So naturally, you have to decide if you should modify your blog or not. If you do, it will be the first "published" account of the ubiquity of bisexuality. "

So this has yet to be peer reviewed but it is Open Access in the interests of furthering science with openness.

For completeness, I include some impressions and details of the bulbous female flowers on the West side: