http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/01/10/denmark.environment.ap/

"In his 2001 book, "The Skeptical Environmentalist,"
Danish statistician Bjoern Lomborg said concerns about
melting ice caps, deforestation, acid rain were
exaggerated. He claimed that the global environmental
situation was not deteriorating. 

The book was translated into a dozen languages and
generated criticism from environmentalists worldwide. 

The Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty said
Tuesday that the 350-page book "is clearly in
violation of the norms for good scientific behavior." 

...Hans Henrik Brydensholt, the panel's chairman, said
Lomborg did not make "thorough searches for all
available sources ... including what goes against
one's supposition." 

...The ruling didn't include any penalty, but
opponents of the Liberal-Conservative government said
it was an indicator that Lomborg shouldn't have been
named director of the national Environmental
Assessment Institute, which monitors the use by state
agencies of public funds aimed at cutting pollution. 

"Bjoern Lomborg is a provocative environmental debater
(and) he should be allowed to be that," said Pernille
Blach Hansen of the opposition Social Democrats. "The
problem is that he and the government have presented
him as something he is not: namely a scientist." ..."

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