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Friday, January 17, 2003

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[DoughtyOne]

Nice article. I shoudl read the book.

[Molly Pitcher]

Good to see this man's work & position getting more and more notice.

[aruanan]

environmentalism is a political ideology based on science

More accurately, "Environmentalism is a political ideology that inaccurately claims legitimacy by appealing to science."

[bert]

Thanks fdor this article. I sent it to the editor of my local paper who regularly trashes the enviro drivel. I hope it will be grist for his mill.

[Wonder Warthog]

"As Ronald Bailey pointed out in 2002's Global Warming and other Eco-Myths, environmentalism is a political ideology based on science -- the accepted way we judge what is the objective truth."

Bailey is wrong here. "Environmentalism" is a political ideology MASQUERADING as science. It uses "scientific-sounding language" not based in real facts to mislead the non-scientific public.

[Constantine XIII]

They are absolutely right about "scifi" american. What was once a great science magazine was transformed over the course of a few months into a pile of drivel focused on promoting environmentalism, bashing conservatives, and denigrating religion.

These folks seem to be purposefully infiltrating science publications. I noticed that Astronomy just hired THREE english majors onto the staff, one to be editor-in-chief! Seems awfully dubious to me, considering the abysmal level of mathematical and scientific curiosity most, though not all, english majors display.

[bobg]

As a former liberal environmentalist until getting involved in asbestos abatement, I read Lomborg's book from cover to cover. I had also read Julian Simon's book which inspired Lomborg. All this publicity will only cause more people to read Skeptical Environmentalist.
Bjorn, if you see this...keep up the good work...

At a professional course for asbestos abatement, a comment by one of the instructors at coffee break started me to search for other "junkscience". He said that we were spending billions to protect smokers from asbestos, arguing that the cilia in broncial tubes kept out most fibers, while a cigarette stopped the cilia protective particle expelling movements for hours.

The same thing happened with radon... Most data was based on uranium miners most of whom smoked... Dr. Bernard Cohen of Univ of Pittsburgh did a large study that found that the counties in U.S. with highest radon levels had the lowest lung canger rate. But as an architect I still have to have radon tests for new federal work.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Tailgunner Joe]

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[SunkenCiv]

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg