A nice piece on forest ecologist Suzanne Simard, who has endured a lot of criticism for the way she expresses her hypotheses about forest management and how trees communicate. Fortunately these views are testable, so if you find them unpalatable, go out, collect the data, and test them.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/14/my-ideas-are-a-little-revolutionary-ecologist-suzanne-simard-on-intelligent-forests-the-climate-and-her-critics

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