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Do Leaked Emails Undermine the Scientific Consensus?

November 23, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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For the last couple of days I've been ruminating about what to say concerning the emails and other data apparently leaked by hackers who penetrated the computer systems at the University of East Anglia's Hadley Centre Climate Research Unit, one of the major global sources of climate change data and analysis. It's clearly premature to... [read more]

Fighting Bad Science

November 23, 2009 by Michael Tobis
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One of the issues with how the UEA emails are perceived is whether the reader understands the context of the dubious pseudoscience and constant harassment the field faces. If you understand that, the emails are understandable and mostly excusable. If you don't, if you think that normal science is being stymied, then you come away with a... [read more]

The "CRU hack" and the deplorable state of reporting and blogging

November 23, 2009 by Simon Donner
with 179 views
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This episode is a sad sad sad comment on the state of blogging and news reporting. Three reasons. First, for legal reasons, I'd like to think that no news organization should be allowed to report on the content of that mail. This is the equivalent of someone breaking into your mailbox in front of your house, opening your mail, then... [read more]