> To better document this fowl play, Taylor Barnes, a biologist at EDM International, an engineering consultancy firm in Colorado, collected data on wildfires across the United States. He and his colleagues used Google Alerts to monitor fires started by birds between 2014 and 2018, using keyword pairs: “fire” and “eagle,” for example.
So their "research" consisted of casual Googling? They didn't even cross-check any Fire Service, insurance, or other sources about the causes of wildfires?
> says Antoni Margalida, a conservation biologist at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology who has studied the impacts of wildfires caused by birds and other fauna in Spain but who was not involved with the work.
and then they quote a guy who "has studied" it in Spain but wasn't involved with this. Then they quote two other studies from four years ago.
What was Sabine Hossenfelder saying just the other day about science journalism and why it's so bad?
So their "research" consisted of casual Googling? They didn't even cross-check any Fire Service, insurance, or other sources about the causes of wildfires?
> says Antoni Margalida, a conservation biologist at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology who has studied the impacts of wildfires caused by birds and other fauna in Spain but who was not involved with the work.
and then they quote a guy who "has studied" it in Spain but wasn't involved with this. Then they quote two other studies from four years ago.
What was Sabine Hossenfelder saying just the other day about science journalism and why it's so bad?