There is a website about lomborg.
"Debunking Pseudo-Scholarship: Things a Journalist Should Know About The
Skeptical Environmentalist," is now available on-line.
WHERE:
http://www.wri.org/wri/press/mk_lomborg.html
WHEN:
Available 24 hours daily, seven days a week.
WHY:
The World Resources Institute (WRI) is urging journalists to exercise
caution in reporting on or reviewing the new book, The Skeptical
Environmentalist by Bjorn Lomborg . The book, which has been heavily
publicized, makes extraordinary claims - that environmental quality is
improving around the world, and that the environmental community is not
telling the truth for its own cynical reasons. Those claims deserve scrutiny
by careful and knowledgeable journalists.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Lanier" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: FW: "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
> Jim,
>
> Since I can't afford access to the Chronicle, would you mind posting a
copy
> of the article in point? Or would that be unethical? Ok for you to cite
a
> source that is not accessable to some of us and not give us a copy or even
> the sense of the argument?
>
> Ray
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Tantillo" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:00 PM
> Subject: Re: FW: "The Skeptical Environmentalist"
>
>
> > well, as a followup to my earlier note about Lomborg--the "excerpt"
> > from Lomborg in the Chronicle of Higher Ed. was in fact a (negative)
> > review of the book, not a chapter excerpt. mea culpa. (October 19
> > issue: http://chronicle.com/chronicle/v48/4808guide.htm ) So
> > apparently my lunch room informants thought the *review* was well
> > done. (?) I still haven't seen either the review or the book, so
> > I'll reserve judgment. But I guess we can add another negative voice
> > to the chorus of Lomborg's critics. :-) fyi and fwiw.
> > Jim
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