From another list - what about the ethics of writing & publishing apparently
erroneous information with the apparent intention of misleading people about
the environment?
-Tc
Anthony R. S. Chiaviello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Professional Writing
Department of English
University of Houston-Downtown
One Main Street
Houston, TX 77002-0001
713.221.8520 / 713.868.3979
"Question Reality"

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> From:         john delicath[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Wednesday, December 12, 2001 11:03 PM
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> Subject:      "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
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> More good stuff to use to in teaching your environmental
> communication courses about: rhetoric and the public sphere;
> argumentation and evidence in environmental controversies;
> counter-science; environmental opposition discourses; environmental
> matters and the mass media, etc
> best,
> JD
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> DUPED BY "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
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> The New York Times, Washington Post,
> The Economist and Others Got Suckered
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> Bjorn Lomborg's new book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist," says the
> Earth's environment is getting better, not worse. Don't fret over ozone
> depletion, species extinction, or acid rain, Lomborg says. Pesky
> environmentalists are using bad science to scare us.
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> A NEW YORK TIMES writer called the book, "a substantial work of
> analysis." A WASHINGTON POST reviewer gushed over Lomborg's "magnificent
> achievement." THE ECONOMIST, TIME INTERNATIONAL, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE and
> many other respected publications swallowed the book whole, legitimized
> it, and made it a hit.
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> But the supposedly skeptical press got suckered by the Danish author.
> Find out how at TomPaine.com.
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> http://www.TomPaine.com/opad
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> THE TABLOID ENVIRONMENTALIST
> How a Pseudo-Scientist Duped the Big Media -- Big Time
> by Colin Woodard for TomPaine.com
>     "Here's one guy taking on a whole spectrum of issues, who has never
> written a paper on any of them, and is in opposition to absolutely
> everyone in the field, Nobel Prize winners and all. It ought to have
> raised some red flags."
> http://www.tompaine.com/news/2001/12/07/index.html
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> SOMETHING IS ROTTEN IN THE STATE OF DENMARK
> A skeptical look at "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
>     GristMagazine.com commissioned an extensive series of reviews of
> Lomborg's book by leading scientists.  The series is a devestating
> rebuttal, and shows just how badly the media got duped. Here's your
> guide -- with links -- to the series.
> http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/12/11/1.html
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> John Delicath
> Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
> Research Associate, Center for Environmental Communication Studies
> University of Cincinnati
> (513) 556-4442
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