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Bjørn Lomborg is, according to his website, an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Politital Science at the University of Aarhus: http://www.ps.au.dk/vip/lomborg/biograph.htm An (admittedly ill-formatted) mirror: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:kTuhJRr1b-kC:www.ps.au.dk/vip/lomborg/html/files/ScientificAmerican%2BBL.pdf+lomborg.org+%22scientific+american%22+pdf&hl=en -Declan --- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 12:27:34 -0600 Subject: "Free Speech Under Attack" From: Virginia Postrel <vpostrel@dynamist.com> To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Free Speech Under Attack By Glenn Harlan Reynold When Bjorn Lomborg wrote his book The Skeptical Environmentalist, I imagine that he expected to be criticized; one doesn't accuse an entrenched establishment of fraud without encountering some blowback. So when a critical issue of Scientific American came out, accusing Lomborg of not knowing what he was talking about, Lomborg didn't get mad: he simply posted the article, along with a detailed response, on his website. What happened next, however, may have come as a surprise: Scientific American sent him a letter threatening to sue him if he didn't remove the critical article that he was responding to. With the air of bemused politeness that has marked Lomborg's response to his often-overheated critics, Lomborg took the article down. Lomborg's situation, however, serves to underscore a new and unwholesome trend: the use of copyright law to silence critics. more http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/envirowrapper.jsp?PID=1051-450&CID=1051-030602B -- Virginia Postrel (vpostrel@dynamist.com) Author, The Future and Its Enemies "Economic Scene" columnist, The New York Times Contributing editor and "Spaces" columnist, D Magazine http://www.dynamist.com | http://vpostrel.com (The Scene) (214) 219-5725 | (214) 219-1188 (fax) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------