Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 6/17/20


A three-year run of fragmentary Armageddon-like studies had primed the journalism pumps and settled the media framing about the future of the global insect population: modern agriculture was steering us toward catastrophe. But scientists remained queasy about what they increasingly came to believe was a simplistic narrative. None of the studies reaching 'disaster conclusions’ was comprehensive. All were steeped in assumptions that could radically skew the data. Most of the world’s insect population centers were not even studied.

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