Writing in the WSJ “Opinion Journal,” Thomas Bray discusses the treatment Bjorn Lomborg received in retaliation for publishing his environmental study, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World (Cambridge UP 1998):

Green organizations like the World Wildlife Federation and World Resources Institute sent out press releases warning potential reviewers about the evils of Mr. Lomborg’s book. No fewer than four prominent academics who have been deeply involved in environmental activism were invited to pen articles denouncing him and belittling his credentials in prestigious Nature magazine last November. Scientific American devoted an extraordinary 11 pages of its January issue to attacking the Lomborg thesis.

And just for good measure, when Mr. Lomborg showed up to debate his thesis at Oxford University, a ‘global warming’ researcher threw a cream pie in his face.

Ah, the rigor of avowed enviromentalists engaged in hard science for political purposes! When the data fails, pelt your opponents with fluff — literally, if you have to…

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