/oss/taxonomy/term/2266/all en /oss/article/health-pseudoscience/do-you-know-whats-inside-your-herbal-medicine <p>Can we find 15,000 taxonomists willing to work around the clock? I write this because there are a lot of species out there that need to be properly identified, but apparently a taxonomist (a person who names and identifies living things)<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691236/"> can only critically identify about 0.01% of all species on this planet</a>. So we would need tens of thousands of them to know exactly what’s what when it comes to living things.</p> Thu, 05 Dec 2019 17:55:52 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8039 at /oss