Woody's Last Laugh: How to identify and avoid 50 common mistakes caused by uncertainty I became enchanted by the

I became enchanted by the prairie grasslands more than 40 years ago

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"I loved reading this book and found it a valuable and unique contribution to natural history literature

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Woody's Last Laugh: How to identify and avoid 50 common mistakes caused by uncertainty I became enchanted by theWoody's Last Laugh explores a simmering controversy amid scientists, conservationists, birders and the media: the supposed extinction of American ivory billed woodpecker. Among the first to identify rampant mental errors inside conservation and environmental professions, the book identifies 53 distinct kinds of cognitive blunders, psychological biases, and logical fallacies on both sides of the woodpecker controversy. Few species have ever provoked