Biodiversity scientists must fight the creeping rise of extinction denial
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Lees, A.C.; Attwood, S.; Barlow, J.; Phalan, B. (2020) Biodiversity scientists must fight the creeping rise of extinction denial. Nature Ecology and Evolution, Online first paper (18 August 2020) 4 p. ISSN: 2397-334X.
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Efforts by conservation scientists to draw public attention to the biodiversity crisis are increasingly met with denialist rhetoric. A summary of some of the methods used by denialists to undermine scientific evidence on biodiversity loss, and outline pathways forward for the scientific community to counter misinformation are outlined.