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What significance does that have with the content of this article?

• _bxg1 9y ago
  A few people in the comments have pointed out problems with the reporting, and the general motive of downplaying environmental issues aligns with those of the aforementioned media company.
  • kwoff 9y ago
    I don't mean to imply anything wrong with the article, but I totally agree that bringing this up is relevant. The potential motivations of who is telling you something is very important. One of the first things I did was google "who owns national geographic". Then I looked through the comments here to see if it'd been mentioned. (I would've made a similar comment, despite the almost inevitable downvoting which I see has so far happened to your comment.) One might also want to check the linked article and its source, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Reports https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Reports (I also don't mean to imply anything about that.)
    • _bxg1 9y ago
      Agreed. The article itself doesn't seem wildly biased from a cursory glance, and I'm not really qualified to comment on its scientific rigor, but it's worth being aware of potential sources of bias nonetheless.