Nature fakers controversy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-14

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00:02:25 1 Background
00:02:33 1.1 Nature boom
00:04:34 1.2 Literature
00:08:50 2 Beginning of controversy (1903)
00:09:01 2.1 "Real and Sham Natural History"
00:14:58 2.2 Long's response
00:19:24 3 Escalation (1903–1904)
00:19:35 3.1 Animal surgery
00:23:35 3.2 Animal psychology
00:25:42 4 Controversy dies down (1904–1905)
00:29:59 5 Roosevelt's involvement
00:30:08 5.1 Pre-1907
00:33:21 5.2 "Nature Fakers"
00:40:07 6 End of controversy and aftermath
00:47:06 7 See also



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The nature fakers controversy was an early 20th-century American literary debate highlighting the conflict between science and sentiment in popular nature writing. The debate involved important American literary, environmental and political figures. Dubbed the "War of the Naturalists" by The New York Times, it revealed seemingly irreconcilable contemporary views of the natural world: while some nature writers of the day argued as to the veracity of their examples of anthropomorphic wild animals, others questioned an animal's ability to adapt, learn, teach, and reason.
The controversy arose from a new literary movement, which followed a growth of interest in the natural world beginning in the late 19th century, and in which the natural world was depicted in a compassionate rather than realistic light. Works such as Ernest Thompson Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known (1898) and William J. Long's School of the Woods (1902) popularized this new genre and emphasized sympathetic and individualistic animal characters. In March 1903, naturalist and writer John Burroughs published an article entitled "Real and Sham Natural History" in The Atlantic Monthly. Lambasting writers such as Seton, Long, and Charles G. D. Roberts for their seemingly fantastical representations of wildlife, he also denounced the booming genre of realistic animal fiction as "yellow journalism of the woods". Burroughs' targets responded in defense of their work in various publications, as did their supporters, and the resulting controversy raged in the public press for nearly six years.
The constant publicity given to the debate contributed to a growing distrust of the truthfulness of popular nature writing of the day, and often pitted scientist against writer. The controversy effectively ended when President Theodore Roosevelt publicly sided with Burroughs, publishing his article "Nature Fakers" in the September 1907 issue of Everybody's Magazine. Roosevelt popularized the negative colloquialism by which the controversy would later be known to describe one who purposefully fabricates details about the natural world. The definition of the term later expanded to include those who depicted nature with excessive sentimentality.