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Why discrediting controversial academics such as Bjørn Lomborg damages science
Friday, April 24, 2015 4:22
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Alice Dreger’s new book, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science, tells the stories of various academics whose work is perceived to be politically threatening to one group or another and then as a consequence experience vicious personal and professional attacks. In each of the cases, when Dreger explored the controversy, she found that the claims made to impeach the researchers – such as that their research was fabricated or that they had engaged in academic misconduct – did not stand up to scrutiny.
Source: http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/why-discrediting-controversial-academics-such-as-bjorn-lomborg-damages-science.html
