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Four Hunnnnnn-dred Years

Jul 5, 2006 – 9:47 PM

Everybody seems to be so full of advice on how I should do things. OK, I have a question. Ross and I are writing an op ed about the NAS Panel. It’s hard to convey to a lay audience what a comedown it is for the NAS Panel to say that it is merely the […]

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Nature on NAS

Jul 5, 2006 – 2:17 PM

Nature has two online articles pertaining to the NAS Panel – one about the NAS Panel primarily relying on the press conference and another mentioning a prospective new NAS investigation into the data access problems left untouched by the past panel. The Nature reporter asked an interesting question at the press conference. I’ve provided a […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Also posted in NAS Panel | Comments (35)

Boston Globe (and Filene's Basement)

Jun 23, 2006 – 9:27 AM

I had a unique and busy day with reporters yesterday, although I obviously didn’t change anyone’s mind. Boston Globe here and here ,New York Times, USA Today, Greenwire. Ross talked to San Francisco Chronicle. Back to usual today. When I was checking the Boston Globe, a completely different story caught my eye- the closing of […]

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A few inconvenient truths

Jun 14, 2006 – 2:34 PM

John A thought that it would be worthwhile to draw attention to some articles on scientific reaction to Al Gore’s film "An Inconvenient Truth". and started this post. I have kept his links and quotations, but otherwise re-written this post. I haven’t seen Al Gore’s film and may comment on it myself later. I suspect […]

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Michael Mann at UC Santa Cruz

May 13, 2006 – 1:10 PM

This is the eyewitness account by Justin Rietz of the talk given by Michael Mann at University of California at Santa Cruz on Wednesday 10th May 2006. I made it down to Santa Cruz for the Mann presentation Wednesday night. I missed the first 10 to 15 minutes (those of you who live or have […]

By John A | Also posted in MBH98 | Comments (37)

NY Times: For Science’s Gatekeepers, a Credibility Gap

May 4, 2006 – 2:34 AM

From the NY Times, a wide-ranging article on the problems of journal peer-review: Recent disclosures of fraudulent or flawed studies in medical and scientific journals have called into question as never before the merits of their peer-review system. The system is based on journals inviting independent experts to critique submitted manuscripts. The stated aim is […]

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BBC Radio: Overselling Climate Change

Apr 17, 2006 – 7:32 AM

On Thursday, April 20, the BBC has a show on Overselling Climate Change. BBC radio attended the NAS Panel and taped lengthy portions of it, as well as interviewing me, Hughes and others. It will be interesting to get their take on it. The title of the show seems pretty unusual in a BBC context. […]

By Stephen McIntyre | Also posted in NAS Panel | Comments (52)

Failure of oversight and peer review

Apr 14, 2006 – 12:26 PM

Demonstrating that scientific misconduct can happen anywhere, and not simply in one study, the case of Dr Ranjit Kumar Chandra is a case in point. St. John’s, Nfld. [Newfoundland], may seem like an unlikely place for scientific scandal to brew, but in hindsight it appears, perhaps, the perfect place. For almost three decades, Memorial University […]

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Thacker’s “Sources”

Apr 13, 2006 – 12:21 PM

Last summer, after Paul Thacker published a critical article about me in Environmental Science & Technology (also try here), I contacted three of the people prominently quoted in the article – Mahlman, Trenberth and Famiglietti – to obtain confirmation of what they said. As you will see below, their responses are extraordinarily lame. None of […]

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Society of Environmental Journalists

Apr 11, 2006 – 10:04 AM

Paul Thacker, who wrote about me very unfavorably in Environmental Science & Technology last August, has written another unfavorable story for the SE Journal here. Thacker thinks that it’s a big deal that we were covered by the Wall Street Journal and that this is an anomaly pointing to bias. He ignores the fact that, […]

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