Comments on: Steig and the International Man of Mystery

By: Team Policy on Acknowledgements | Another Newyork Times

Team Policy on Acknowledgements | Another Newyork Times — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:17:57 +0000

[...] to acknowledge McCulloch and that the Steig coauthors would have been happy to do so. (See here and here .) Had Dr. McCulloch been the first person to make Steig et al. aware of the error in the [...]

By: Team Policy on Acknowledgements « Climate Audit

Team Policy on Acknowledgements « Climate Audit — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:11:40 +0000

By: jae

jae — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:51:25 +0000

LOL. It’s deja vu all over again for the (nth) time! Yogi has to be laughing, wherever he is!

By: Dominic

Dominic — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 09:43:12 +0000

In my days as a theoretical physicist, I recall reading papers where the authors would acknowledge at the end of the paper that a simultaneous and independent discovery of a result had been brought to their attention at some point before the publication of their paper. Such practices of politeness and respect were deemed important and were enforced by the senior scientists in the field who valued the importance of integrity and openness. Those who broke the rules damaged their reputations. It seems to me that there are few such senior and respected role models in climate science – just a lot of young guys in a hurry.

By: JustPassing

JustPassing — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:30:38 +0000

Who is The Steig?

By: Dan White

Dan White — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Re: Dave Dardinger (#49), What's really funny is that people that think the rhetoric here is harsh merely show how unaware they are of what really goes on on the internet. My reaction is to replace the word "internet" above with "climate science." It's just completely ridiculous what someone with an honest interest in the science has to put up with.

By: Dave Dardinger

Dave Dardinger — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:21:59 +0000

Re: Calvin Ball (#45), What's really funny is that people that think the rhetoric here is harsh merely show how unaware they are of what really goes on on the internet. This is by far the most civil site I've ever frequented and that includes messages which are subsequently snipped. For people to be so isolated that they can say,

Try taking a step back and see what your comments look like to an outsider.

with a straight face is hilarious. It'd be interesting try a "scavanger hunt" on several websites to see what sort of put-downs could be found.

By: Craig Loehle

Craig Loehle — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:06:49 +0000

Perhaps anyone who ever posts at CA gets their name added to the Team spam folder list and so none of them saw Hu’s email? That is the only excuse for NONE of the coauthors notifying Steig of the error.

By: DJA

DJA — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:50:45 +0000

The University of Washington has a webpage on plagiarism, it states “Note: The guidelines that define plagiarism also apply to information secured on internet websites. Internet references must specify precisely where the information was obtained and where it can be found.”
Just Google “plagiarism Washington University”
whats good for the Graduates should be good for the professor!

By: Justin Sane

Justin Sane — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:58:01 +0000

So just to clear this up, all of the Peer reviewers also didn’t pick up on the error during their reviews?

Shows how diligent they review papers from ‘there’ side, while rejecting valid counter point articles for the flimsiest reasons. In fact I think they make them up without regard to content or authors.