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Sir, - You will have heard about Bjorn Lomborg's book 'The Skeptical Environmentalist'. You may also have heard the astonishing news this week that Lomborg has been 'found guilty' of 'scientific dishonesty' by a kangaroo court of the Danish Research Agency, equivalent of a national academy of sciences. The details of this decision are mind-boggling in their Stalinism. A committee met, ignored Lomborg's own submissions, judged him guilty and yet then said they were not competent to judge whether Lomborg's conclusions were correct. I'm sure you all share my belief that this is a grotesque attack on freedom of speech as well as a terrible slur on the reputation of a fine scholar -- even those of you who disagree fervently with Lomborg's conclusions about the possibility for environmental optimism.

I am just a freelance writer with no institutional back-up, but I hope that others to whom I am sending this message will be able to suggest ways in which this appalling event does not go uncondemned by other national science academies and other bodies with respect for freedom of speech in scientific debate. We may not all like what Lomborg says, but we have a duty to defend his right to say it.

- MR

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