Monthly Archives: July 2011

Dirty Laundry II: Contaminated Sediments

Jul 6, 2011 – 10:55 AM

From time to time, scientists inadvertently use contaminated data and their results are affected. For example, some time after publication of Grand et al (PNAS 2004), the authors determined that their results were erroneous as a “result of contamination of genomic DNA with plasmid DNA”. They promptly issued a retraction, expressing their regret for the […]

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Nic Lewis on IPCC Climate Sensitivity

Jul 5, 2011 – 8:37 AM

Nic Lewis (a co-author of O’Donnell et al 2010) is a very sharp analyst who’s recently taken an interest in climate sensitivity estimates and has an interesting guest post at Judy Curry’s today. In his studies, he noticed that the IPCC’s representation in AR4 Figure 9.20 of the probability distribution for climate sensitivity arising from […]

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Wimbledon – Djokovic v Nadal

Jul 3, 2011 – 11:02 AM

Were others watching the Wimbledon final? What a heavyweight battle. The quality of individual points was even better than Federer v Nadal 2008.

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More Mendacity from East Anglia Revealed

Jul 2, 2011 – 12:00 PM

More developments from Bishop Hill on the strange relationship between the University of East Anglia and the supposedly “independent” Muir Russell review. On yet another occasion, the University gave untrue answers in order to avoid FOI disclosure, an untrue answer that led to several follow-up FOI requests that they were unable to subvert, but which […]

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