Steven,
Got a link to that article. I want to post it a couple of places,
but these places take a dim view of copyright infringements.
Steve
--- Steven Bissell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Here's an article about Lomborg. Seems his peers in Denmark smell
> something rotten (oh, come on! I had to do it.) Interesting that
> the
> panel felt, as I do, that Lomborg's failure to cite common source
> which
> do not necessarily agree with him is/was suspicious. However I am a
> bit
> aghast that Lomborg was actually appointed to a position of
> authority on
> any environmental issue.
>
>
>
> Steven
>
>
>
> Danish panel says controversial book not scientific
>
> Wednesday, January 08, 2003
>
> The Associated Press
>
> COPENHAGEN, Denmark - A Danish panel of scientists said Tuesday
> that a
> controversial book challenging the sacred cows of the environmental
> movement was not a scientific publication.
>
> In his 2001 best seller, "The Skeptical Environmentalist," Danish
> statistician Bjoern Lomborg said concerns about melting ice caps,
> deforestation, acid rain were exaggerated. He claimed that the
> global
> environmental situation was not deteriorating. The book was
> translated
> into a dozen languages and generated criticism from
> environmentalists
> worldwide.
>
> The Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty said the 350-page
> book
> "is clearly in violation of the norms for good scientific
> behavior." The
> agency reviewed the book after complaints from four scientists,
> including Stuart Pimm, an ecologist at the Center for Environmental
> Research and Conservation at Columbia University in New York. He
> did not
> immediately return a call from The Associated Press.
>
> Hans Henrik Brydensholt, the panel's chairman, said Lomborg did not
> make
> "thorough searches for all available sources ... including what
> goes
> against one's supposition. ...He used sources in favor of his own
> beliefs," he said.
>
> Lomborg acknowledged Tuesday that he may not have always quoted all
> available sources, but said the panel failed to provide any
> examples of
> the alleged unfairness, he said. "I have never tried to hide that I
> wasn't an environment specialist," Lomborg said, adding his book
> was
> meant to start a debate on the environment.
>
> The ruling didn't include any penalty, but opponents of the
> Liberal-Conservative government said it was an indicator that
> Lomborg
> shouldn't have been named director of the national Environmental
> Assessment Institute, which monitors the use by state agencies of
> public
> funds aimed at cutting pollution.
>
> "Bjoern Lomborg is a provocative environmental debater (and) he
> should
> be allowed to be that," said Pernille Blach Hansen of the
> opposition
> Social Democrats. "The problem is that he and the government have
> presented him as something he is not: namely a scientist."
>
> A former member of Greenpeace, Lomborg has argued that a solution
> to
> pollution is more likely to be found in economic and technological
> progress than in the policies advocated by many environmentalist
> organizations.
>
> Copyright 2003, Associated Press
> All Rights Reserved
>
>
>
>
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