Howard Friel

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Author Howard Friel is best known for having found - and written a book documenting - a "pattern of nonexistent footnoted support for assertions in the text"[1] in his exhaustive check of the extensive references provided in Bjorn Lomborg's book Cool It, which is aimed at a lay audience and minimizes the need to cut carbon emissions.

About

Friel worked as a research assistant for Edward Herman where he discovered Richard Falk's book "Vietnam and International Law" [2]

Books

  • Howard Friel, The Lomborg Deception: Setting the Record Straight on Global Warming (Yale University Press, 2010).
  • Howard Friel and Richard A. Falk, The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy, Verso, November 2004. ISBN: 1844670198
  • Howard Friel and Richard A. Falk, Israel-Palestine on Record: How The New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East, Verso, November 2007. ISBN: 1844671097

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External resources

Articles by Friel

References

  1. [1] Book Review: The Lomborg Deception, debunking the claims of the climate-change skeptic; by Sharon Begley, published in Newsweek.
  2. Bios, Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy, accessed September 7, 2009.

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