Entomologist sets Hollywood straight about insects
November 21, 2008 By Robert MitchumUniversity of Illinois entomologist May Berenbaum is used to seeing Hollywood take creative license with insects. After 25 years of screening films about giant bugs and killer swarms at an annual film festival she organizes, Berenbaum can only laugh when she sees yet more improbable science.
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Even "Realistic Fiction" is ultimately nothing more than Fantasy.