Jonathan Leake

Jonathan Leake is Science and Environment Editor for the Murdoch-owned London Sunday Times; his sources frequently report that their views were misrepresented.

Background
Leake's age and academic and other background prior to 1995 are unclear.

He was already writing for the Sunday Times in 1995, and was made "science editor" sometime prior to May 2001, at which point a reshuffle was announced, making him "science and environment editor".

Discredited stories
This is not a complete list.

Legitimate research or researchers misrepresented

 * Jan. 2010, UN wrongly linked global warming to natural disasters misrepresents Risk Management Solutions research head Robert Muir-Wood
 * Jan 2010, The UN climate panel and the rainforest claim misrepresents Dan Nepstad
 * June 2009, Oceans charge up new theory of magnetism - addressed by Ben Goldacre ,
 * Sept 2009 We are born to believe in God misrepresented Bruce Hood (although Hood subsequently reported "I have no complaint", since Leake "was very quick to respond to my initial complaint back when this was first posted and an updated article was posted online.")
 * April 2009, Facebook fans do worse in exams misrepresents the results of researchers Aryn Karpinski and Adam Duberstein
 * Jan. 2009, the carbon footprint of Google misrepresents the carbon footprint of Google.
 * May 2004, Top Scientist Gives Backing to Astrology, putting words in the mouth of Richard Dawkins

Other discredited stories

 * Feb. 2010, Africagate: top British scientist says UN panel is losing credibility is "another case where there was scientific support for what was written in the IPCC report and Jonathan Leake deliberately concealed it"
 * Feb 2010 World may not be warming, say scientists "reads like it was ghost written by ...Morano...[It] trots out the usual collection of discredited papers..."

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 * Rupert Murdoch

External resources

 * The "Leakegate" series by Tim Lambert in Deltoid