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Extinction denialism is a worrying new anti-science movement

There are a growing number of people who deny the threats that many species face. It is a worrying trend, writes Graham Lawton

By Graham Lawton

10 March 2021

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A COUPLE of weeks ago, I got sucked down an internet rabbit hole – or should I say tiger trap? It arrived in the form of a tantalising of a man claiming to have rediscovered a charismatic animal that officially went extinct in 1936. Speaking from a small town in northern Tasmania, Neil Waters, president of the , claimed he had camera-trap footage of what he said were three thylacines, aka Tasmanian tigers. The pictures were being assessed by an expert at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, he said, and there would be further…

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