Sentences with phrase «attracted much investigation»

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Few areas in the world have attracted so much speculation, yet so little serious investigation, as the region around the small town of Nazca, some 500 kilometres south of Lima (to avoid confusion, Silverman advocates the «s» spelling for the Pre-Columbian culture of Nasca, and the «z» for the modern town of Nazca, its river and region).

Bjorn Lomborg's book, The Skeptical Environmentalist attracted much angry attention earlier this decade, prompting an investigation by the Orwellian - sounding Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty (DCSD).