We are seeing greater use of prison labor in anti-exotics extermination projects. Active work towards banning importations continues. Letters to the editor in response to newspaper and magazine articles may be effective. The scientific information-pool is being deeply contaminated by articles by researchers with an economic interest in promoting weed extermination. Circular reasoning, low standards of evidence, self-sealing arguments, unsupported causal attribution and resistance to contradictory evidence are frequent.
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