THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST IS VINDICATED



Today, the Dutch Ministry of Science threw out the findings of it's own Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty:

The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has today repudiated findings by the Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (DSCD) that Bj�rn Lomborg's book "The Skeptical Environmentalist" was "objectively dishonest" or "clearly contrary to the standards of good scientific practice".



The Ministry, which is responsible for the DSCD, has today released a critical assessment of the Committee's January 6 ruling. The Ministry finds that the DCSD judgment was not backed up by documentation, and was "completely void of argumentation" for the claims of dishonesty and lack of good scientific practice.



The Ministry characterises the DCSD's treatment of the case as "dissatisfactory", "deserving criticism" and "emotional" and points out a number of significant errors. The DSCD's verdict has consequently been remitted.

Of course, the Washington Post and others have not yet seen fit to cover this story, although they immediately "flooded the zone" when the DSCD first slammed Lomborg's book. Typical.



The full statement by the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation can be found here.



The DSCD statement about Bj�rn Lomborg's book is here.



My earlier post about the religion of radical environmentalism can be found here.