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Counter Argument
On Bjorn Lomborg's use of statistics |
Allen Hammond |
12 Dec 2001 |
Arts and Minds |
| Extraordinary claims demand an extraordinary level of documentation and supporting analysis, and warrant the healthy skepticism of those who would review or pronounce judgment on them. Bjorn Lomborg's new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, is missing the documentation and analysis, and the outpouring of media coverage the book has generated is missing the skepticism. Lomborg's extraordinary claims are that e ... |
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| Topics: books, climate, scientific research (all these topics) |
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