In the reading section, the writer contends that the accelerating trend of commercial fossil collectors, have adverse effects including restricting both the public and scientists access to discovered pieces and in addition causing some damages to existed documents due to non-academic attributes among millionaire fossil buyers; however, in the lecture, the professor casts doubts on the reading points by taking into account some advantages of private collectors competitions.
First of all, the writer claims that the public in general deprive the ease access opportunity to valuable heritages of earth by giving the authorization of fossils to private owners; in contrast, the professor rejects this notion by stating that as the fossils are exhibited in order to purchase, there would be a broad exposure. she believes "fossil hunting", the great competition among collectors, provide a chance to public to be announced about the rarest and most important ones.
Moreover, contrary to the idea in the reading suggesting that extinct life studies confronted a reduction in discoveries owing to restricting access of scientists to exceptional pieces, the most appealing ones to millionaire, the lecturer points to the fact that who put a value on a fossil are scientists. Therefore, before taking place a sale, discovered fossil would pass to hands of experts and scientist to examined the value of it by doing some experiments and tests and ignoring scientists is somewhat exaggeration.
In addition. even though the writer indicates that non-academic viewpoint of typical owners toward fossils leads to some damages to documentary of findings due to neglecting small evidence and details, the professor mentions that it outweighs to being undiscovered. according to the professor point of view it is better for science to found new discoveries even with the lack of accurate date regarding location and surrounded them.
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