I will be pleased to draw your attention to the following homepage developed by biologist Kåre Fog,Denmark:
http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/
This homepage documents the many erros in Bjørn Lomborgs book.
Number of flaws and errors listed in the error catalogue
Number of ERRORS: 110. Number of FLAWS: 204. Total number: 314.
Last updated: 2006-Jan-14.
How many flaws and errors are deliberate ?
On 31st December 2005, a total of 312 flaws and errors had been listed.
These were approximately distributed as follows:
- 16 accidental/involuntary errors
- 214 errors of the most common type that may or may not reflect deliberate bias
- 33 errors that were probably deliberate or were due to gross negligence
- 49 errors that were evidently deliberate
From: [[Stewart Brand]] <sb AT gbn.org>
Sent: Jul 14, 2006 10:39 AM
To: salt@list.longnow.org
Subject: [SALT] John Rendon TONIGHT, July 14 (for forwarding)
Oz has many wizards. Tonight one is stepping from behind the curtain
to speak in public.
John Rendon is head of The Rendon Group, a private firm that provides
global communications consulting to the current leadership of the
Department of Defense and the White House, as well as that of
previous administrations back to President Carter. In his view, the
US needs to engage terrorism from a much longer time perspective than
it has so far--- to think and act strategically instead of just
tactically. This may be a growing general problem in American
governance.
"Long-term Policy to Make the War on Terror Short," John Rendon,
Herbst Theater, San Francisco, 7pm, TONIGHT, Friday, July 14. The
lecture starts promptly at 7:30pm. Admission is free ($10 donation
certainly welcome, not required).
A note on the question format... The largest audience for the
Seminars About Long-term Thinking is online, via downloads of the
audio or video recording--- 50,000 a month. Thus questions are
written on cards provided (bring a pen), sifted by Kevin Kelly and
me, and read by one of us on stage. I know there will be questions
about Iraq, and I'll get to those, but I'll start with questions
related to the substance of Rendon's talk. (Readability counts---
short, pithy, and legible survives the sifting best.)
The Herbst Theater is at 401 Van Ness (& McAllister) in the War
Memorial Veterans Building, adjoining the San Francisco Civic Center.
This is one of a monthly series of Seminars About Long-term Thinking
organized by The Long Now Foundation, usually on second Fridays. If
you would like to be notified by email of forthcoming talks, please
contact Simone Davalos--- simone AT longnow.org, 415-561-6582--- or go
to: http://list.longnow.org/mailman/listinfo/SALT .
You are welcome to forward this note to anyone you think might be interested.
--Stewart Brand
--
Joe Conason has a [http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/07/14/melanie_morgan/index.html column in Salon.com] that gives further details about Melanie Morgan, who has now apparently revised her opinion on killing Bill Keller. Instead of the gas chamber, she is now recommending electrocution:
<blockquote>At that point one of her co-hosts cheerfully interjects, "You originally called for the gas chamber ... but we kind of like Ole Sparky," meaning the electric chair. To shrieks of laughter from Morgan, he launched into a gruesome description of execution by electrocution: "Their hair would go up and everything, smoke, electrical jets shooting out of their eyeballs ... We'd take Bill Keller, put him in the electric chair -- after a trial -- and then fire it up." He then launched into a series of oral sound effects -- buzzing, screeching, hissing and blubbering sounds meant to simulate the high-voltage end of the Times editor.</blockquote>
Please note that the name of the Canadian institution in your article is incorrect. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is a crown corporation which operates at arm's length from the government and is known for its excellence in journalism reporting.
I will be pleased to draw your attention to the following homepage developed by biologist Kåre Fog,Denmark:
http://www.lomborg-errors.dk/
This homepage documents the many erros in Bjørn Lomborgs book.
Number of flaws and errors listed in the error catalogue
Number of ERRORS: 110. Number of FLAWS: 204. Total number: 314.
Last updated: 2006-Jan-14.
How many flaws and errors are deliberate ?
On 31st December 2005, a total of 312 flaws and errors had been listed.
These were approximately distributed as follows:
- 16 accidental/involuntary errors
- 214 errors of the most common type that may or may not reflect deliberate bias
- 33 errors that were probably deliberate or were due to gross negligence
- 49 errors that were evidently deliberate
We'll get on it right away. The CBC's definition of "age compression" clearly is the more accurate of the two presented.
Please note that the name of the Canadian institution in your article is incorrect. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) is a crown corporation which operates at arm's length from the government and is known for its excellence in journalism reporting.
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