I'm doing an assignment in my science class on how news articles can be wrong and use information in the wrong way to push a certain agenda. Basically I'm looking for an article that projects a certain idea and tries to sound all "science-y" but is complete crap. I knoooow there have got to be a TON of articles like this on reptile. I need them to be somewhat recent. I was -trying- to look for articles that use the Florida Everglades problem with large constrictors as an excuse to ban ownership of large constrictors across the entire UnitedStates where snakes like that couldn't even last through fall/early spring, much less the winter time. Anyone care to point me in that direction? It doesn't have to be on that, if you can point me towards any bad science examples that involve reptiles or animals I would REALLY appreciate it!
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Help! I need "bad"science articles.
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this might be late, but oh well.
i'm fairly certain that every news article that comes up when you google "florida everglades burmese python problem" will be full of bad pseudo science and nonsense.
compare any info in those articles to the paper done by the Barkers so see everything that is a full blown lie.
the media/ politicians/ animal planet would have you belive that monster hyper-aggresive 50' burm/ afrock hybrids will soon take over the country and kill every endagered animal and all of our children.
the reality of the problem is that there are some pythons living in parts of florida that shouldn't be there... problem, yes, huge problem, nope. the wild cat and hog populations in the U.S. are far worse.
