Nature has published a ground-breaking new study of peer review.
On Tim Lambert’s weblog, our regular correspondent per was making interesting points on the R2 statistic in the thread called "McIntyre’s Irrational Demands" when suddenly // all// some [updated – SM ] of per’s comments vanished. Was it Spam Karma or just per’s karma? To be fair, Spam Karma has reacted strangely to some people’s […]
We’ll reach 500,000 hits tomorrow (Aug. 14, 2005) since start of this blog on February 8, 2005. Traffic in July was nearly 130,000 hits. There are obviously a lot more visitors than people who post comments. If you’re someone that does visit the site, but who doesn’t feel comfortable posting comments on technical topics, I’d […]
In some of our discussions of data archiving, the principal rationalization of a researcher’s not archiving data at recognized permanent archives (such as WDCP) has been the argument that they should be able to maintain confidentiality for a period of exclusive use. I’ve noticed that some researchers have established password-protected private archives, to which some […]
“Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate…” If you look at the footer of any page, you’ll see the current statistics on how many spam comments have been dealt with by Spam Karma 2 since I installed it on the 9th of July. As you can see, managing even a moderately successful weblog like this one would […]
Tim Lambert was quick to pounce on Ross McKitrick’s programming error in calculating cosine(latitude) in a paper not involving me, so it’s ironic to see Lambert’s apparent failure to understand Mann’s erroneous use of cosine(latitude) in his temperature PC calculations, even when brought to his attention. Ed Snack has had an interesting exchange with Tim […]
At Steve’s request, I’ve turned off the threaded comments and reinstated the “numbered comments”. This means that if comments are held up for moderation or deleted, references to comment numbers will go astray. I’m also experimenting with a new plug-in to enable commenters to preview their comments prior to submission. This should help all of […]
Here is a guest report from Scott Shipley of George Mason University on the von Storch seminar at Boulder.
We have started getting a barrage of automated hits and spam comments from online poker sites – a pulse from a different site and IP address every day. It started about 3 weeks ago. Our spam filter seems to be working fine with respect to spam posting, but we don’t know how to block the […]
One of the important issues raised in the House Committee Letters was the potential conflict of iinterest between individuals in their capacity as IPCC authors reviewing (and even promoting) their own research. Kevin Vranes, Roger Pielke and Hans von Storch in different ways at Prometheus have all discussed the problem, with a surprising degree of […]
Climate Audit 
von Storch at Boulder
Here is a guest report from Scott Shipley of George Mason University on the von Storch seminar at Boulder.