text: The presenters on the panel were generally scathing about the quality of the IPCC's assessment reports in their fields of expertise. For instance, Prof. Reiter revealed that, the nine lead authors of the chapter discussing vector-borne diseases in the Second Assessment Report had published a total of six papers on the subject. The three leading critics of the chapter, including Prof. Reiter, had published over 550 scholarly papers. Prof. Morner has written in a peer-reviewed journal article that the IPCC chapter on sea-level rise represents "a low and unacceptable standard. It should be totally rewritten by a totally new group of authors chosen among the group of true sea-level specialists."