Nice paper in Science, but the idea of fire a primary cause of megafauna extinction only appears in the cover & in the abstract ("Time-series modeling implicates large-scale fires as the primary cause of the extirpations ...") but not in the article! https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo3594
The top journal #Science recently rejected reply letters from at least 3 groups of top scientists to a poor paper they published. Science only accepted comments as footnotes to the original article. This is surprising, as scientific debate is an important part of the scientific process. It is disappointing that a top journal like Science would not be more open to scientific debate.
We are in the 21st C & the journal #Science publishes a #vegetation#model that fails to consider key mechanisms of the system modeled. And the authors use the model to criticize the dynamics of the systems!
Unfortunately #Science don't accept reply letters only comments as footnotes