Eco-heretic beset by hate campaign

Sunday Times (UK) ^ | 1/13/02 | JONATHAN LEAKE, SCIENCE EDITOR

[jojo123]

The eco-fascists are trying to destroy Lomborg.

I will be cancelling my subscription to "Scientific" "American" because of their hit piece in this month's issue. Actually their socialist editorial policy has been p****ing me off for some time.

[The Great Satan]

Why do you have a subscription to "Sci-commie American" in the first place?

[anniegetyourgun]

Smart move.

[oldvike]

Liberals are evil. There is no more doubt in my mind. They are physically harming this poor man and nobody seems to give a rats a$$. Could you imagine if conservative groups attacked some stupid eco-nut like Mr. Lomborg was attacked? Of course not.

[jojo123]

When I was a teenager 25 years ago it was a great magazine. I subscribed about a year ago, now I realize what a piece of crap it is. I hadn't realized it had changed so much since I hadn't looked at it much in those 25 years.

[Rocky]

True science. Step outside of mainstream thought and get bashed by every half-wit who is considered a scientific leader in the world. The universities perpetuate whatever the current mythology is, and they use hate and venom to maintain the status quo. Science does not breed free thinkers. They preach it but they don't practice it.

[jojo123]

get bashed by every half-wit who is considered a scientific leader

One of the authors of the SciAm hit piece mentioned he was a collaborator of Paul Ehrlich - one of the true charlatans of our time.

[Jay W]

Why do you have a subscription to "Sci-commie American" in the first place?

Scientific American used to be a respectable science magazine. It is sad to see it fall before the altar of Political Correctness Stalinism.

[concerned about politics]

"Repressive Tolerance” which means “intolerance against movements from the right, and toleration of movements from the left.”
When the left speaks of tolerance, this is what they mean.

This declaration, right from the horse’s mouth, the Marxist handbook, illustrates exactly what were up against:
“Members and front organizations must continually embarrass, discredit and degrade our critics. When obstructionists become too irritating, label them as fascist, or Nazi or anti-Semitic…The association will, after enough repetition, become ‘fact’ in the public mind.”

[DallasMike]

I will be cancelling my subscription to "Scientific" "American" because of their hit piece in this month's issue.

I cancelled mine years ago when they fired a writer because he was a Christian. I pick up a copy or so every year and am amazed at how much of the magazine is overt liberal propaganda.

[TheMole]

I read Scientific American as a teenager 35 years ago. Last year I stayed with friends who had a subscription and was appalled by what it has become. It used to be a large broadsheet and is now about 8x11 inches, but the real shrinkage is intellectual. Global warming is upon us because of unrestrained greed, Africa is dying of AIDS because of the way Ronald Reagan used to act, guns are evil and dangerous contraptions wielded by Neanderthals ... eeeaggghhh. There must be a market niche available for a serious magazine popularizing developments in science.

[concerned about politics]

There must be a market niche available for a serious magazine popularizing developments in science.

There's a good book you can read. Try The Skeptical Environmentalist.
Why not make it #1 on the NYT best seller list?

[Amelia]

hmmmm...sounds like a book I need to buy. Part of what I teach is environmental science. Always good to have something else to challenge the "accepted wisdom".

Trashing the Planet by the late Dixy Lee Ray is another good one.

[bagman]

I have some forty-year old Scientific Americans in my possession. The articles in the magazine are a challenge to read, despite the fact that I have a BA in Physics and a MS in engineering. The articles in the recent SciAm's can be breezed through in a few minutes. Jeez, I can even keep one eye shut ;-)

The magazine is simply not what it used to be.

[grundle]

"One of the authors of the SciAm hit piece mentioned he was a collaborator of Paul Ehrlich - one of the true charlatans of our time."

Paul Ehrlich's predicitons were completely wrong. And the environmentalists love him.

Bjorn Lomborg verified Julian Simon's proof that Ehrlich was wrong. And environmentalists hate Simon just as much as they hate Lomborg.

The reason that the environmentalists hate Lomborg and Simon is because Lomborg and Simon are telling the truth. Having people find out the truth is the biggest fear of the environmentalists.

I urge everyone here to read Lomborg's book, and to post a review of it at amazon.com

The people who hate Lomborg the most are waging personal and physical attacks on him, because they can't come up with reasonable arguments against his ideas, and because they are a bunch of savages who hate real debate and free speech. The people who scream the loudest about being in favor of "diversity" are, in fact, the very same ones who try to silence any diversity of opinions.

Paul Ehrlich said that before the year 2000, 90% of U.S. citizens would have starved to death. Simon predicted obesity rates in the U.S. would get higher and higher. Clearly, Ehrlich was totally wrong, and Simon was totally right. But the environmentalists love Ehrlich, and they hate Simon. That just proves how irratioanl the environmentalists are, and how much they hate facts, evidence, and the truth. Their attack on Lomborg is happening because they are afraid of the truth.

The article also mentioned Lester Brown. He's been proven just as wrong as Paul Ehrlich.

Clearly, these so-called "scientific" journals are not interested in science.

[aruanan]

One of the most hostile, in Nature magazine, likens him to apologists for the Nazis. He has been physically attacked and has had to employ bodyguards.

What would you have if you had the Department of Catechism for a religion that was almost totally unaware of its articles of faith but which persecuted dissenters with as much zeal as any medieval religious establishment? You'd have Nature. It's too bad there are so many scientists who are unable to see where science stops and their scientism begins.

[Justanumba]

Indeed, we are in the midst of the Eco-Inquisition!

[Dr. Frank fan]

Global warming is an orthodoxy, every bit as entrenched as any other religious orthodoxy. And this is what happens when someone dares to go against orthodoxy. The same people threatening this guy's life are the ones who in other contexts will conjure up images of Galileo versus the Church. What they don't realize is that they are now playing the role of the inquisitor, not Galileo.

Sadly, this orthodoxy will be with us for a while. The way things work in bureaucratized academics is that you have to wait for one generation of entrenched intellectuals to die off/retire and be replaced with a younger crop, before orthodox "truths" accepted on faith can be truly re-examined by fresh, skeptical eyes. The tenured intelligentsia do not want to admit that they are fallible, and there is very little incentive for them to do so. In a way this is all good news though, because it means that there is hope as long as some future generation becomes sufficiently skeptical. It may take a while though.

[Bernard Marx]

Step outside of mainstream thought and get bashed by every half-wit who is considered a scientific leader in the world. The universities perpetuate whatever the current mythology is, and they use hate and venom to maintain the status quo. Science does not breed free thinkers. They preach it but they don't practice it.

It's interesting how the roles have changed but groupthink remains the same forever. Galileo was persecuted by the religious groupthink of the Inquisition for practicing science. Now the Environmental Inquisition, a Gaia religion posing as science, is again persecuting an independent thinker for practicing science. What the hell IS it with human beings?

[SierraWasp]

This man is a hero! Not a goat!!!

Nature & Scientific American have become TABLOID PSEUDO-SCIENCE TRASH! Their former impecabile standards have become enough to gag a maggot in a manure pile!

One of our own, Carry_Okie has a book that is every bit as concise and true about the environment and how humans should interact with it as a part of it. (www.naturalprocess.net)

That one guy, toward the end of the article, talking about "Crap Detector" has his inverted! What a crude, intolerant bastard!!!