Monthly Archives: September 2012

Lewandowsky’s Unreported Results

Sep 12, 2012 – 11:24 PM

Some information from sources at the University of Western Australia. On October 21, 2010, the following email was sent to the UWA staff mailing list: UWA researcher Charles Hanich is seeking participants for a web-based survey of attitudes towards climate science (and other sciences) and skepticism. The survey carries no risks for participants. To participate […]

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Lewandowsky: study “Useless” unless authors demonstrate “data integrity”

Sep 12, 2012 – 10:22 AM

Lewandowsky has stated that an online survey by an opponent was “useless” “without the authors demonstrating the integrity of their data” and that their study “should not have been published without the authors demonstrating the integrity of their data—I doubt that they could”. Words that apply even more forcibly to his own study. I guess […]

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Lewandowsky Censors Discussion of Fake Data

Sep 10, 2012 – 4:04 PM

The key issue for Lewandowsky et al 2012 is its use of fake data, a problem squarely addressed by Tom Curtis of Skeptical Science and discussed at CA here. I raised this issue in a comment at Lewandowsky’s blog here as follows: Rather than answer the question, Lewandowsky, the author of a paper entitled “NASA […]

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The Third ‘Skeptic’

Sep 10, 2012 – 9:20 AM

In Lewandowsky’s original editorial about climate “skeptics”, as discussed yesterday, Lewandowsky characterized climate skeptics as “obsessively yelping” and marked by the following belief: The further fact that the satellite data yield precisely the same result without any surface-based thermometers is of no relevance to climate “skeptics.” A few days ago, Lucia wondered about the identity […]

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Anatomy of the Lewandowsky Scam

Sep 8, 2012 – 6:06 PM

The recent article by Lewandowsky et al, “NASA faked the moon landing, Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science”, has attracted commentary at Jo Nova, Bishop Hill, WUWT, Lucia’s and Skeptical Science, as well as by Lewandowsky himself. The data was placed online at Bishop Hill here. Tom […]

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