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

TL;DR

This paper critically examines the evidence for human-driven megafauna extinction, revealing that the supporting data is fabricated and contradicts the hypothesis, challenging widely held beliefs.

Contribution

It exposes the falsification of data used to support the human-mediated extinction of megafauna and questions the validity of previous research.

Findings

Evidence for human-mediated extinction is fabricated.

Contradictory data undermines the extinction hypothesis.

The belief in human-driven extinction is based on unsubstantiated data.

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.