A scientific paper that found a link between conspiratorial thinking and the rejection of global warming science is being retracted after climate sceptics claimed the paper was defamatory.
Science Journal Set To Retract Paper Linking Climate Change Scepticism To Conspiracy Theorists After Sceptics Shout Libel
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March 21, 2014

Via Desmogblog:

Thu, 2014-03-20 19:42Graham Readfearn

A psychology journal is said to be preparing to retract a scientific paper that found a link between conspiratorial thinking and the rejection of global warming science after climate sceptics claimed the paper was defamatory.

DeSmogBlog has learned the paper's four authors, led by Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, the chair of cognitive psychology at the University of Bristol, have signed gagging orders preventing them from discussing the nature of the complaints about their work, carried out when Lewandowsky was a professor at the University of Wester...

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