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Michael Gove: Both America and Israel were founded by peoples who were refugees from prejudice in Europe. 

The ugly assault on Lomborg (aka The Skeptical Environmentalist) continues. A new "report" claims that Lomborg's work is "dishonest" but the report fails to provide any evidence of dishonesty or falsehood. Compiled by a committee of Danish "scientists" and a "judge" the report offers No Evidence. Nada.

NYT: The Danish Committees on Scientific Dishonesty [sic] ... issued a 17-page report yesterday concluding that the book displayed "systematic one-sidedness" — indeed, Lomborg's book is systematically siding with facts and truth, not propaganda and falsehood. The committee said that the publication of the work under consideration is deemed to fall within the concept of scientific dishonesty but said also that it found no evidence that Professor Lomborg deliberately tried to mislead readers... The report did not cite a single specific example of dishonesty but asserted that the book — although presented in the style of a scientific treatise, with copious footnotes and diagrams — was actually "a provocative debate-generating paper."

These fools should learn that debate, argument, proof, counter-proof, falsification, more debate, and disagreement are essential parts of a healthy scientific process. Witch hunts and inquisitions are not. Is environmentalism turning into a religion against scientific inquiry and truth?