The suggestion that any collector allows his/her "bias" to effect their results without having examined their work in detail is both extremely arrogant and also deeply issulting
It allows any academic carer seeking academic to make a name for themselves without making the slightest effort
If such accusations or even implications are made they need to be presented with examples and irrefutable proof, otherwise t stands to undermibne everything we have done
To a degree, this has what has gone radically wrong with our understanding of folk song, following Dave Harker's taking contacts out on some of our most important researchers
It needs to be nipped in the bud in these discussions otherwise any subject this lady chooses to target with go crashing in flames
Jim Carroll