Obama's science advisor no fan of Bjorn Lomborg

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If the โ€œskepticalโ€ Dane Bjorn Lomborg had any standing with the White House it will quickly evaporate with the incoming Obamaย administration.

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen John P. Holdren as his science advisor – a man who was one of the most vocal critics of Lomborgโ€™s famously inaccurate book The Skeptical Environmentalistโ€.

โ€œThe Skeptical Environmentalistโ€ was so offensive to the scientific community that Scientific American published a ten-page evisceration authoured by four actual researchers, includingย Holdren.

Lomborg tried to refute this critique on his website but apparently knew so little about science that he sent a blanket email to his supporters pleading for help. Itย read:

โ€œNaturally, I plan to write a rebuttal to be put on my web-site. However, I would also love your input to the issues โ€“ maybe you can contest some of the arguments in the Scientific American, alone or together with other academics. Perhaps you have good ideas to counter a specific argument. Perhaps you know of someone else that might be ideal to talk to or get to write aย counter-piece.โ€

Holdren, wryly noted: โ€œIt is instructive that [Lomborg] apparently did not feel he could manage an adequate response by himself. (In this, at least, he was correct. But he could not manage it with help,ย either.)โ€

It looks like Obama has chosen not to take science advice from the likes of Lomborg. Sorry Bjorn. I think your race isย run.

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