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Your comment is so weird, and I see this more and more on the internet.

In that article there is evidence gathered by people over a 20 year period, its an amazing effort which in many ways represents the very best that science has to offer. We have no reason on the face of it to doubt their evidence.

You have dismissed it in 20 seconds with a casual smear and no evidence whatsoever.

Is it perfect and guaranteed to be accurate? beats me, but its a pretty convincing show by some obviously passionate people who love their insects, and yours is a pretty unconvincing effort.

Shame on you.


I quite enjoyed Robert Wright's interview with Lee McIntyre about his new book The Scientific Attitude (https://meaningoflife.tv/videos/41931). It has much to say about this particular contemporary strand of of anti-scientism.

It's so deeply non-rational that there's not much we can do other than to ignore it until it goes away, or consigns itself to becoming a marginal Flat Earther style phenomenon.


Doubtless you're spot on but it would be so nice to actually get to see the comment you're shaming.


Just turn on that option in the settings somewhere, then walk around spookily saying "I can see dead comments".



How much stuff do you see in newspapers that is not alarming anyway?


A lot, especially in the US newspapers.

On the other hand the articles I linked to, contain serious science backed claims. Also I don't see much value for someone to increase fear of a mass extinction of insects.

If a newspaper tries to increase the fear of migrants coming to your country on the other hand it helps the weapons dealers (people get more guns) and others. So why should they somehow use this fear instead of just telling what they do - that insects are going to go mass extinct?




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