Lie Detector Company Threatens Critical Scientists With Suit

An anonymous reader writes "The Swedish newspaper DN reports that the Israeli company Nemesysco has sent letters to researchers at the University of Stockholm, threatening legal action if they do not stop publishing findings (Google translation). An article called 'Charlatanry in forensic speech science: A problem to be taken seriously' was pulled by the publisher after threats of a libel lawsuit." Online translations can be a little wonky; if your Swedish is as bad as mine, this English-language article describes the situation well.

Comments

Re:there are two enemies of science and progress

[bluefoxlucid]

1. socially conservative politics

Don't forget that liberal politics make it fashionable to blame global warming for everything, and force change. Cleaner air would be nice; but politics from both sides make random arguments fashionable. Also actual evidence indicates embryonic stem cell treatments would have tons of complications and excessive cost and complexity, while host-harvested adult stem cell treatments would work much more readily and without any complications at all; but it's more fashionable to attack conservative politicians for their stance against "stem cell research" (and blatantly avoid letting on that there's a difference between the two, and that nobody's against adult stem cell research at all) and never, ever put out a proposal that more grant money go to "adult stem cell research" because it weakens your campaign position (wait, stem cell research? We just voted on allowing $3.5 billion federal monies for that, what do you mean Bush made it illegal?).

Politics is the enemy of everything. (Yay mass noun)

Re:there are two enemies of science and progress

[Tubal-Cain]

IIRC, embryonic stem cells have a tendency to be cancerous (and adult stem cells less so)

Re:Streisand effect strikes again

[Locke2005]

I also find it funny, and sad, that a Swedish entity caved so easily to a legal threat from outside the country...
Hey, after seeing what the Israelis did to the residents of Gaza, would YOU want a bunch of Israelis pissed off at YOU?!?