Stephan Lewandowskay : In Whose Hands the Future?fromPeter SinclaironVimeo .
Update : frontier of Psychologyhave hit back at unfavorable judgment with anew statementon why they withdrew the paper . However , far from make things up this has made them more cloudy . The new program line reads , " Frontiersdid not “ cave in to threats ” ; in fact , Frontiersreceived no threats . " Instead they say " As a result of its investigation , which was carry out in regard of academic , ethical and legal factors , Frontierscame to the conclusion that it could not go forward to carry the theme , which does not sufficiently protect the right field of the studied subjects . Specifically , the clause categorize the behavior of identifiable individuals within the context of psychopathological characteristic . "
This intimate thatFrontiers ' trouble with the clause was ethical rather than legal . But this directly contradict the original statement they issued which read , " This investigation did not identify any issues with the donnish and honorable aspects of the study . It did , however , influence that the legal context is insufficiently clear , " as well as statements ofFrontiers ' attorney .
The authors of the statements are not identified in the newspaper publisher itself , and in most cases even following the references only reveals pseudonyms . The newspaper publisher does not attempt to diagnose the authors of the statement , only analyse their words for conspiracy ideation . paper in other scientific diary have examined public statements of far more easily identifiable individuals in similar way .
It would be wait that if the publisher had business organisation about the ethics of talk about public statements in this way they would have raised them with the authors . Lewandowsky says they did not . Onhis blogLewandowsky says , " Throughout the entire period , from March 2013 until February 2014 , the only business concern sound byFrontiersrelated to the presume hatchet job risk of infection under English libel law of nature . "
The publisher have not made a statement on whether they did in fact raise these yield with the authors , but Lewandowsky has been supported byUgo Bardi , the editor program of the edition , who hasresignedfrom his stance withFrontiers of Psychologyover the issue .
