Correcting myths about biodiversity/endangered species
NEW Sucker Punch by Chris Mooney
NEW In Future Scientists of America, Unite! Chris Mooney describes the blandly titled Science in Policy. The group looks at a number of issues including climate change, tozxins, endangered species and forests.
NEW In Never Mind That Boiling Kettle... Carl Zimmer finds fault with the critics, including Gregg Easterbrook, of a recent study published in Nature that showed that global warming will lead to massive species extinction.
NEW Just the Facts by William Stolzenburg looks at myths about protecting biodiversity
THE DODO WENT EXTINCT (AND OTHER ECOLOGICAL MYTHS) by Stuart L. Pimm
Three reports about "lynxgate"
Debunking Lynxgate from Outside Magazine
"Lynx, Lies and Media Hype" by Ted Williams, Audubon, May-June 2002, pages 24-33
Scott Church's page on the lynx controversy
Science and the Endangered Species Act, the National Research Council's look at the Endangered Species Act (National Academy Press)
Biodiversity Baloney: Some Popular Myths Undone from the Union of Concerned Scientists
From Environmental Defense
How the Biodiversity Treaty Went Down, CLEAR's look at how disinformation from Lyndon LaRoche associates killed the biodiversity treaty in the Senate.
Written by Jim Norton
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