British Wildlife 37.3 December 2025

How to be wild

“But it’s the myth, not the truth that endures: science can’t even explain the flight of a bumblebee, so there’s no need to accept evolution, the roundness of the earth, the movement of the continents, the efficacy of vaccination, the heating of the planet or any other truth we happen to find inconvenient.”

Simon Barnes considers myths, misunderstandings and misrepresentations in nature discourse.

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