Danish committee decision - Letter to the Editor

Readers who wrote to complain about the treatment of Bjorn Lomborg's book The Skeptical Environmentalist (Letters, March/April 2003) might be interested in the decision by the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty (an officially established group) upon their review of the book They found that the book was "objectively speaking, deemed to fall within the concept of scientific dishonesty." Some social scientists have come to Lomborg's defense, claiming that it's okay to use data selectively as Lomborg has because selection of information is common in the social sciences and is important to develop theories in those fields. What limitations this places on their conclusions they don't say.

Bill Ferrell

Philomath, Oregon

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