Sam Tiley more ragwort nonsense

I wrote a blog entry about this woman Sam Tiley (Samantha Victoria Tiley) a few days ago 

http://ragwort-hysteria.blogspot.com/2021/01/sam-tileys-poor-thinking-and-ragwort.html

Sam Tiley posted nonsense but she is still claiming that all the experts who told her she was wrong are crazy. This sounds like arrogant ignorance to me . She claimed that ragwort is poisonous to the touch. It is nonsense and is fully debunked in the earlier post. One little illustration.  Our UK ragwort used to have the scientific name Senecio jacobaea. It is now called Jacobaea vulgaris. (I quoted the professor who did this  work  in the previous posting debunking Sam Tiley's claim.) There  is another plant with the same toxins in it that used to be called Senecio grayi but it is now Brachyglotis grayi. It and hybrids with other Brachyglotis species are frequently planted in public places. I know of a housing  estate where it is planted in every garden. I think by the building company. It is planted in raised beds by the seats in a local town centre in the pedestrianised streets. One council even has it as a feature outside its headquarters. It,, as I said, contains the same toxins as ragwort. Would it be planted if those those toxins made plants toxic to the touch? Of course not!

It would appear from her recent tweet  that Sam Tiley is trying to ridicule me and is potentially inviting people to mock me. Before you do that just take care to check your facts. I am an accepted expert on this issue.  If  you want written proof you can google the details of this letter to the Daily Telegraph which I co-authored with the CEOs of several conservation organisations in the UK. Would a crazy person be allowed to do that? It isn't just ragwort, some years ago the US government asked me to peer review some completely unrelated ecological issue. They don't ask cranks!

This is an excerpt from a two page article about my work as a conservationist from Invertebrate Conservation News in 2011. This goes out to several thousand insect specialists in the UK.

"A significant blow for conservation was struck in June 2011, as a result of a set of complaints sent by Neil Jones to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) about companies who were selling ragwort
control using dodgy facts and falsehoods.As a result, a load of misinformation was changed and taken down. This includes the awful leaflet that was produced by the British Horse Society and Warwickshire
Council. There was no question of asking them in this case. The ASA just told them get rid of it!"

Ragwort is a problem in hay everyone knows that, but it is subject to many urban myths and Sam Tiley  was, frankly, not knowledgable of smart  enough to know better. worst still she is so  ignorant and closed minded that she can't understand this when it is explained to her and abuses people  who question  and correct her. Oh and before you take to twitter as  Sam Tiley suggests, do note that I quoted three professors  in that  support of what I say. Do you know better than  them?

This is the reason I write my blog. Horsey people have swallowed nonsense and it damages conservation. It is a pity also that some ignore evidence and reason.