Disagreement or denialism? "Invasive species denialism" and ethical disagreement in science.
Recently, invasion biologists have argued that some of the skepticism expressed in the scientific and lay literatures about the risks of invasive species and other aspects of the consensus within invasion biology is a kind of science denialism. This paper presents an argument that, while some claims...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 25; pp. 6085 - 6114 |
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