From: Glenn Morton (glenn.morton@btinternet.com)
Date: Sun Jan 19 2003 - 15:32:35 EST
Thes week New Scientist has a comment and analysis by Fred Pearce, entitled,
"Call off the Witch-Hunt, New Scienctist Jan 18, 2003, p. 23 Pearce had
inteviewed Lomberg when the book came out. The piece ends with this
"Lomborg struck me as an eager and honest researcher working ouside his
field and out of his depth. But science is an adversarial a process as the
law. Without repeated challenge, even flwed or naive ones, evidence and
theories go stale. Science needs its dissidents and mavericks, and should
be wary of resorting to these draconian Star Chamber tactics to silence
them.
"Lomborg is by no means a towering intellect or authority, But 'undermining
publich understanding' and 'perverting the scientific message' are nasty
catch-all charges that should have no place in a sicentific court. The
conviction by this Danis panel is unfair and bad for science. It is also bad
for the environmentalists who have so applauded it. Lomborg will now be
characgerised as the victim of a green witch-hunt. I fear that his accusers
have been guilty of just that."
glenn
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