Selling Fossils

In this set of materials, the reading passage states the criticisms of selling fossils to private owners and provides three reasons of support. While in the listening, the professor contradicts the textbook and says the advantages of selling the fossils to private owners outweight the disadvantages. Also, she refutes each of the author’s reasons. First of all, the reading passage contends that people will miss out viewing the fossils when they go to the private collectors. Consequently, the public interest in fossil will reduce. However, the professor opposes this point and says that the public will achieve a great exposure to the fossils than before. Moreover, she mentions that the private collectors will gather more fossils and display them in schools and public institutions. Second, the reading passage claims that scientist will lose significant discoveries concerning fossils especially on the extinction life. Scientist and muesums can’t compete with the fossil collectors in the prices of the fossils. Nevertheless, the professor casts doubt about this point and illustrates that before anyone puts a hand on a fossil, it should be scientifically identified by scientists, who carry out tests and experiments on the fossil. Furhermore, she points out that scientists wouldn’t miss out any substantial discoveries.
They might destroy the small fossils or the location of the fossils. The oviraptors dinosaur was discoveried by examining the fossil’s location. In contrast, the professor argues that if the private collectors will be prevented from gathering the fossils, we will lose a lot of scientific discoveries. In addition, she adds that it is much better to discover huge number of fossils than to discover a little with complete data concerning the location and the surrounding by universities and scientific