Friday, January 10, 2003

Scientific Dishonesty: Bjørn Lomborg's book "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
The Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty has issued a ruling on Lomborg's book: "Objectively speaking, the publication of the work under consideration is deemed to fall within the concept of scientific dishonesty."

Worthy of note are the following excerpts:

"The Skeptical Environmentalist" has given rise to extensive public discussion and debate, both in Denmark and internationally. There have been enthusiastic reviews in some of the world's top newspapers such as the Washington Post and the New York Times, and in The Economist."

"It is the view of the Working Party that the many, particularly American researchers, who have received Bjørn Lomborg's book with great gusto, even in a specifically negative fashion, are unlikely to have even given the book the time of day unless it had received such overwhelmingly positive write-ups in leading American newspapers and in The Economist. The USA is the society with the highest energy consumption in the world, and there are powerful interests in the USA bound up with increasing energy consumption and with the belief in free market forces."

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