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Dishonesty Committee Under Attack in Demark
Volume 11, No. 4, September 2003
Social scientists in Denmark are campaigning to have the Danish
Committees on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD) abolished , but some
600 natural and medical scientists in that country have signed
a petition supporting the continuation of the DCSD, according
to Nature. (421:681).
The controversy began last January when the DCSD stated that
a book, The Skeptical Environmentalist written by political
scientist Bjorn Lomborg was "objectively speaking, deemed
to fall within the concept of scientific dishonesty." Social
scientists argue that the book should not be judged by criteria
used to assess dishonesty in the natural and medical sciences.
Following debates in the Danish parliament and newspapers, the
Danish Science Minister set up an independent working group to
examine the regulatory basis and procedures of the DCSD.
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