 On 14 May Bengtsson resigned from the organization.As its lead story on 16 May under the headline "Scientists in cover-up of ‘damaging’ climate view", "The Times" said that the paper Bengtsson had submitted to "Environmental Research Letters" in February had been rejected for what Bengtsson called "activist" reasons.The publishers, the Institute of Physics, stated that the paper "which was the subject of this morning's front page story of "The Times", contained errors, in our view did not provide a significant advancement in the field, and therefore could not be published in the journal."