Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of nthropomorphism in public science discourse:
Nature doesn't waste energy trying to attack something it can't – put fungi on glass and it doesn't do anything."
Prof. Roger Rowell, a professor of composite agricultural materials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US.
Prof. Roger Rowell (professor of composite agricultural materials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US) was quoted in:
Chapman, K. (2023) The wonderful wizards of wood, Chemistry World
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