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 ### How do we know they’re right? ### How do we know they’re right?
  
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 This is a three-tier review by scientists qualified in the field of study. We want to focus on this process to highlight the fact that this is the exact opposite of something garnered from Facebook or from a conversation in the pub. All opinions are not equally valid. This is as far from fake news as it’s humanly possible to get. If you think it’s wrong, you have to go to as much trouble as they have to show your reasoning. Otherwise you’re just wasting everyone’s time, in the same way that climate change denial wasted time (and still is, in some quarters). This is a three-tier review by scientists qualified in the field of study. We want to focus on this process to highlight the fact that this is the exact opposite of something garnered from Facebook or from a conversation in the pub. All opinions are not equally valid. This is as far from fake news as it’s humanly possible to get. If you think it’s wrong, you have to go to as much trouble as they have to show your reasoning. Otherwise you’re just wasting everyone’s time, in the same way that climate change denial wasted time (and still is, in some quarters).
  
-It’s the most effective way we have of ascertaining what’s true, to the best of our knowledge. You might hear some people say 'science doesn't know everything' - but as [Daro O'Briain said](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/557053-science-knows-it-doesn-t-know-everything-otherwise-it-d-stop-but), 'science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop'. Or you might hear: ‘scientists believed that we were entering a new ice age in the 70s’; [but the](https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-intermediate.htm)[y didn't](https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-intermediate.htm).+It’s the most effective way we have of ascertaining what’s true, to the best of our knowledge. You might hear some people say 'science doesn't know everything' - but as [Daro O'Briain said](https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/557053-science-knows-it-doesn-t-know-everything-otherwise-it-d-stop-but), 'science knows it doesn't know everything; otherwise, it'd stop'. Or you might hear: ‘scientists believed that we were entering a new ice age in the 70s’; [but they didn't](https://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-intermediate.htm).
  
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 ## Further resources ## Further resources
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 +- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction) - Holocene extinction event - the current mass extinction
 +- [Living Planet Index](https://www.livingplanetindex.org/) - the state of the world's biological diversity based on population trends of vertebrate species from terrestrial, freshwater and marine habitats
 +- [Greenpeace](https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/challenges/wildlife-and-biodiversity/biodiversity-loss/) - biodiversity loss: a beginners' guide
 +- [Royal Society](https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/biodiversity/human-impact-on-biodiversity/) - how humans affect biodiversity
  
  
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