P. 71 right: ERROR OF BIAS

" . . the UN writes in its 1997 report on poverty and inequality: `Few people realize . . ´ . . "The UN emphasizes that this progress has been general: " Error: Actually, the Human Development Report from 1997 faced the problem that no general statements give an apt description of the world situation; the only apt description is that there is both good and bad: Positive and negative trends exist side by side. As a consequence of this, the report had one chapter describing the good trends, and another chapter describing the bad trends. For instance, the chapter on negative trends had contained the following text: "During the last 15-20 years, more than 100 developing countries, and several East European countries, have suffered from disastrous growth failures. The reductions in standard of lving have been deeper and more long-lasting than what was seen in the industrialised countries during the depression in the 1930´es. As a result, the income for more than one billion people has fallen below the level that was reached 10, 20 or 30 years ago." What Lomborg does, is that he completely neglects the chapter on negative trends, but cites several text pieces from the chapter on positive trends. And in addition, he postulates that "the Un emphasizes that this progress has been general, which is downright wrong. Nowhere in the text does UN state that. So, this is an obvious example of deliberate bias.