A "Sixth Mass Extinction"? Here's Why No One Trusts Science Reporting Anymore Wesley J. Smith June 22, 2015 12:19 PM | Permalink You may have read in the media that humans are causing a sixth mass extinction on the planet. You may also have noted that one of the sources of the claim is Paul Ehrlich -- author of the hysterically wrong The Population Bomb. But for the most part the articles that have reported on the paper by Ehrlich and Anthony Barnosky (in Science Advances) do not mention that infamous book or Ehrlich's history of hyperbolic ecological fear mongering....