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Overzealous activism is just as bad as denialism.
"Analysis of "New Report Warns "High Likelihood Of Human Civilization Coming To An End" Within 30 Years" Published in IFLScience. Six scientists analyzed the article and estimated its overall scientific credibility to be ‘low’. A majority of reviewers tagged the article as: Alarmist, Misleading." https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/iflscience-story-on-speculative-report-provides-little-scientific-context-james-felton/
@michel_slm clickbait disease, I suppose...
@kravietz yeah, I meant to mention that this is likely exacerbated by how Facebook and Twitter surface content
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Chickens running around clucking about the sky falling again? *yawn*
@kravietz I'm tempted to just stop reading IFLScience at this point. Too much harmful sensationalism.