Re: Ehrlich quote

[Jeff Hecht <jeff.hecht@sff.net>]

At 9:25 AM +0000 1/31/02, darren.naish@port.ac.uk wrote:
> "Cambridge University Press should be
> ashamed of abandoning academic standards
> and should be worried about whether competent
> scientists will now publish with them."
>
>  -- P. R. Ehrlich (2002) reviewing Lomborg's
> _The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the State of the World_


I don't know where this quote comes from, but the Nature review of 
Lomberg's book, Vo. 414, p 149-150 (8 November 2001) is by Stuart 
Pimm of Columbia University and Jeff Harvey of the Netherlands 
Institute of Ecology. It makes a rather similar comment: "The only 
such implications we see causes us to ask why Cambridge University 
Press would decide to publish a hastily prepared book on complex 
scientific issues which disagrees with the broad scientific 
consensus, using arguments too often supported by news sources rather 
than by peer-reviewed publications." -- Jeff Hecht