Polar bear specialist Mitch Taylor emailed me and others his response to the New York Timesarticle that appeared Tuesday (10 April) about the Harvey et al. (2018) BioScience paper attacking my scientific integrity. Here it is in full, with his permission, and my comments. Don’t miss the footnote!
Accountability in Polar Bear Science by Dr. Mitchell Taylor
It has become a lot more difficult to talk about polar bears since they became an icon for climate change as a cause. The information has become secondary to the mission for a number of people who were formerly chiefly concerned with research and management of polar bears. The mission is nothing less than saving the planet by saving the polar bears. Ironically the biggest obstacle to this initiative has been the polar bears themselves.
The real story has been the extent to which polar bears have managed to mitigate…
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