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by thatswrong0 3717 days ago
We're dumb because we know how to RFTA?

> There’s little evidence, though, that mosquitoes form a crucial link in any food chain, or that their niche could not be filled by something else. When science journalist Janet Fang spun out this thought experiment for Nature in 2010, she concluded that “life would continue as before—or even better.” I arrived at the same answer when I looked into the same question for a piece published three years later. “There’s no food chain that we know of where mosquitoes are an inevitable link in a crucial process,” one mosquito-control expert told me.

Or because we like reading other sources? http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html

How ironic.