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It is the policy of Ecology Communications, Inc. (ECI) and its media family, including The Ecology Global Network and ecology.com, to present only information that has been peer reviewed for accuracy and integrity by ECI’s science peers.  Scientific accuracy and integrity of information presented from within ECI through its original presentations is overseen by Dr. Jack C. Hall, the current Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and ECI’s Executive Director of Science & Educational Advancement.  Dr. Hall is a regular contributor to the Network as well and has extensive experience in education and the sciences backed by an expansive network of science and educational resources.   For more information about Dr. Hall, please refer to his bio in the “About Us” section.

Information and data presented on the Network will have either been subject to ecology.com’s scientific peer review process or is presented by outside experts and entities which have their own credible review processes.  ECI understands that there are many viable interpretations of data, scenarios, stories, details and other information that are interrelated, and often times there can be several sources of data on a particular topic.  ecology.com respects that of other reputable organizations and experts and will never edit, censor or otherwise amend the data they provide.

Similarly, ECI acknowledges the relevance, importance, and varying points of view and interpretations of data by individual experts, groups, membership organizations, and related entities that may and will be based on educated assumptions and suppositions.   These view points can be and usually are intertwined with creditable scientific data and thus may skew a certain or perhaps a more narrowly focused view point.  While these points of view are valuable to many people, regardless of whether not they agree with them, they are presented on ECI’s media platforms as viewpoints of respective entities and will not reflect the position of either the network, ecology.com or its parent company, ECI.  ECI provides forums for this type of information exchange where the sources are reputable and responsible.

ECI will always support and maintain the need for global sustainability, that life, our planet and environments are changing, and we are at least partly responsible for this change and must take a proactive approach to improvement of the environment for all organisms.  The ECI media family also acknowledges that the same solutions or circumstances for one region or event will not necessarily apply to another region or similar event.  Such information will always be presented with this taken into account. 

Commenting Policy

Ecology.com seeks to promote respectful, relevant dialog among visitors to our site. Comments will not be edited, but may be deleted if, in our opinion, they are judged to be abusive, profane, intentionally inflammatory, threatening, illegal or otherwise unsuitable for our larger audience. Comments may not contain plagiarized material; if the work of others is cited, it must be clearly indicated as such. Advertising or self-promotion in comments are prohibited.

Offending parties may be banned from commenting with or without notice, upon the first or any subsequent violation of our policies.

Ecology.com is not responsible for the accuracy, originality or any other aspect of visitor comments.

We reserve the right to modify our policies at any time without notice.