GayandRight

My name is Fred and I am a gay conservative living in Ottawa. This blog supports limited government, the right of the State of Israel to live in peace and security, and tries to expose the threat to us all from cultural relativism, post-modernism, and radical Islam. I am also the founder of the Free Thinking Film Society in Ottawa (www.freethinkingfilms.com)

Thursday, May 05, 2005

A case history in censorship...

Here's a fascinating account of censorship at Science magazine.

Basically, Benny Peiser of Liverpool John Moores University, challenged an article in Science regarding scientific studies of global warming. His research contradicted an earlier study claiming that scientific papers were basically all unanimous in their support of global warming being caused by humans.

The magazine told Peiser to re-write his letter and whittle it down to 500 words. After he did that, he was told it would not be printed.

You can read the entire letter and the exchange with Science Magazine.