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Biology, like other "ologies" is a science, governed by the rules and customs of science. We should therefore limit the list of subdisciplines to those which are also legitimately considered as sciences, and exclude those that are not. OR, we need to make separate categories for academic vs applied
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Under the section (is that the right term?) titled "Categories", I'm not happy with the hodge-podge of biology "subcategories" (I will call them disciplines) included. In particular, there are some disciplines that I would call "applied biology" (e.g. forestry) and others that are more purely
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In the absence of a response I will simply remove everything that can't legitimately be called a scientific discipline of biology, which is most of the list.
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