I’m playing in the 60+ division of the 2010 USA vs. Canada in Squash Doubles this weekend. (US notice here.) I qualified for the Canadian team on last year’s 60+ tournaments (finals of the Canadians, semis of the US and won the Ontario.) Tournament website says: The 2nd playing of the Can-Am Cup Squash Doubles […]
At Lucia’s, Steve Mosher asks: did bradley make the charges to further a different goal? As indicated in the email sent by Bradley to a third party shown below, Bradley’s actual objective in filing the complaint against Wegman may not have been a concern over alleged plagiarism, but an effort to get Wegman’s criticisms of […]
In my previous post on Fritts and Bradley, I observed that Bradley’s so-called ”seminal” textbook had copied 12 of the first 13 figures in its dendro chapter from Fritts 1976, together with verbatim or near-verbatim caption (with a little more examining, this is now 17 of the first 19 figures in the textbook.) By focusing […]
On March 5, 2010, Mann co-author Bradley filed a plagiarism complaint with George Mason University, alleging that Wegman had copied boilerplate descriptions of proxies from Bradley’s useful but ordinary textbook, which blogger Deep Climate described (incorrectly) as “seminal”. Bradley’s allegations were based on comparisons previously reported by Deep Climate (e.g. link). In a subsequent interview […]
Anthony has an instructive post on how he handled a plagiarism incident involving NOAA. Anthony writes: Readers may recall this post: More dirty pool by NCDC’s Karl, Menne, and Peterson …where I take NCDC to task for not given proper attribution to the surfacestations.org and volunteer Russ Steele for use of a photo on the […]
Fiona Fox is the director of the Science Media Center. She is in the news for a remarkable story here. [On June 30, Bishop Hill reported her comments on the NS Affair here.] She hosted the press conferences for Oxburgh and Muir Russell. Board members for the Science Media Center include Bob Ward, known to […]
As readers know, Raymond Bradley’s allegation that “text was just lifted verbatim from my book and placed in the Wegman Report” has been widely publicized following Bradley’s interview with USA today. The allegation pertains to Wegman’s boilerplate section (2.1) describing proxies, a section in which neither MBH98-99 nor MM2003, 2005abcd are mentioned, and on which […]
Some of the CA posts that I’ve found most interesting to write have been about identifying Chladni patterns in supposedly “significant” reconstructions when principal component methods have been applied to spatially autocorrelated red noise. (This is by no means a new observation, as warnings about the risks of building “castles in the air” using principal […]
Just a short note today on code for McShane and Wyner and its comments. The discussion of McShane and Wyner has been greatly enhanced first by their archiving of code and secondly by simplifications of the code both by the online community and discussants. Most of the McShane and Wyner analysis is in R, making […]
I’ve obviously been in a quiet blogging patch. My wife and I were visiting our daughter who lives in western Canada. I’m still amazed and flattered at my inclusion on the New Statesman list. I will post my reflections on this inclusion at some point, but I want to discuss the point more from a […]
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