Extinction of megafauna: How could the research get so wrong?

Abstract

Published evidence for the human-mediated extinction of megafauna is examined and is found to be unsubstantiated. It is shown that the claimed evidence is not based on data describing the growth of human population but on the fabricated data. However, even these fabricated data, which were claimed to support the human-induced extinction of megafauna, contradict this claim. The belief in the human-induced extinction of megafauna appears to be so strong that even contradicting evidence based on the fabricated data is interpreted as the evidence supporting this belief.