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by i_love_limes 927 days ago
> Best Things First. By Bjorn Lomborg

Wait, this is the social scientist who wrote The Skeptical Environmentalist, whom a Danish Science committee found to be "scientifically dishonest through misrepresentation of scientific facts, but Lomborg himself not guilty due to his lack of expertise in the fields in question." [1]

And now he's written a book about another topic he doesn't have a deep understanding of. Forgive me if I give it a miss.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_Lomborg#The_Skeptic...

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Did you read the rest of the link you provided? The committees decision was overturned:

"the Ministry annulled the DCSD decision, citing procedural errors, including lack of documentation of errors in the book, and asked the DCSD to re-examine the case. In March 2004, the DCSD formally decided not to act further"