claim: Benny Peiser, the Oreskes critic, retracted his criticism.
evidences.evidence_id: Benny Peiser:58
evidences.article: Benny Peiser
evidences.evidence: One of his main points of criticism is that the vast majority of the abstracts referred to in the study do not mention anthropogenic climate change, and only 13 of the 928 abstracts explicitly endorse what Oreskes called the "consensus view".
evidences.votes: REFUTES NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO
evidences.evidence_id: Benny Peiser:59
evidences.article: Benny Peiser
evidences.evidence: Peiser later admitted that it was a mistake to include one of the papers in his survey and said that his main criticism of Oreskes' essay its "claim of a unanimous consensus on anthropogenic global warming (APG) (as opposed to a majority consensus) is tenuous" and that it still was valid.
evidences.votes: REFUTES SUPPORTS SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Benny Peiser:61
evidences.article: Benny Peiser
evidences.evidence: In a 2006, letter to Australia's Media Watch, Peiser explained that he had retracted 97% of his original critique and elaborated on some of his comments: "I do not think anyone is questioning that we are in a period of global warming.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Benny Peiser:66
evidences.article: Benny Peiser
evidences.evidence: Well when we first contacted him two weeks ago he told us..." "Only [a] few abstracts explicitly reject or doubt the AGW (anthropogenic global warming) consensus which is why I have publicly withdrawn this point of my critique."
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS NOT_ENOUGH_INFO NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Naomi Oreskes:43
evidences.article: Naomi Oreskes
evidences.evidence: Oreskes' 2004 "Beyond the Ivory Tower" essay was challenged by British social anthropologist Benny Peiser, who eventually retracted his challenge, admitting he had only found one paper rejecting anthropogenic climate change, published by American Association of Petroleum Geologists (see also Benny Peiser § Objections to Oreskes essay).
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS