Biologists warn of ‘extinction denial’ as latest anti-science conspiracy

Mongabay
Sep 14, 2020, 6:08 am184 pts
Biodiversity scientists are being urged to “fight the creeping rise of extinction denial” that has spread from fringe blogs to influential media outlets and even into a U.S. Congressional hearing. The call to arms came in a paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution last month by Alexander Lees, senior…

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