Malicious Defacement

Update 2: The porn photo defacements have been removed. My photos look normal again even to me as the account owner.
Update: I had a friend check my Flickr account and evidently what I see is not viewable to the public at large. I'm grateful for that but it does not change the opinions expressed here.

There has been a series of malicious defacements of both this blog and my Flickr photos. It’s best not to access my Flickr account currently.

Because of some past personal experiences, I am highly suspicious that these attacks are from someone in the horticultural community rather than some stray nutcase.

I have no personal enemies that I know of but I do know that I am considered "the enemy" by some for publishing this blog. I've been called the enemy right to my face.

If you think that houseplants are a non-controversial, innocuous subject, think again. I've personally experienced an anti-technology, anti-science, reactionary element in the horticulture community whose positions on the subject could easily be described as zealotry.

Short of zealotry, overly sanctimonious opinions, particularly on gardening blogs are an every-day occurrence in my research. Placed in the perspective of our current polarized national politics and world events, I wonder where we are headed as a nation.

I have a lot more to say but I’m in the middle of watering plants in the lab. This job will end before too long as I am in the process of donating what I now call the Greenscaper Inside Plants Science Lab.

Note the word science, for that is the operative word. I will donate this extensive database of information along with the plants to help teach science to kids, particularly young girls.

If you know of anyone connected to a NY Metro area educational institution or non-profit that is working to further the science and environmental education of young people, please contact me. The Big Apple is where the lab and I are headed by the end of this month. No Sleep Til Brooklyn

My vision is to see this work expanded 10 fold and then 100 fold…or more.

What’s your opinion?

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