Lomborg’s experience shows what happens when a researcher challenges a powerful narrative with inconvenient numbers. Eventually the narrative is revealed as false
By Marian L. Tupy, Quillette, March 3, 2026
Summary: When Bjorn Lomborg challenged environmental doomsday narratives, he was met not with open debate but with efforts to discredit and silence him. Two decades later, many of his core arguments have quietly entered the mainstream. The convergence of his views with those now voiced by leading figures offers a lesson about the cost of treating scientific disagreements as moral heresies rather than opportunities for empirical inquiry.… Read more