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> Newspapers may have said that, scientists did not, and would not have done

True, but most people's information to access about the issue is from the media. Most people do not have subscriptions to journals, or any decent subsitute.

Media reports also quote scientists, so while the GP's claim is incorrect and exaggerated, there have been plenty of badly wrong predictions in the media that do quote scientists - e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20100212233059/http://www.indepe...



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