I did not note any advocacy of the Smithsonian article by Breitbart in their article. It read, at least to me, as a report on an article/press release by the Smithsonian. What I got from the article is that the Smithsonian is fully in the hands of the ‘globull warmists’ and no longer do science.
But the title sucks.
“The Roman Empire rises and falls and rises and falls,” said co-author Kyle Harper, a classicist at the University of Oklahoma.
“There's a series of episodes of very extreme crises in some cases. And I think the case is now overwhelmingly clear that both climate change and pandemic disease had a role in many of those episodes,” he added.
Smithsonian is fully in the hands of the ‘globull warmists’ and no longer do science.