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From: LindyBill8/25/2005 11:25:19 PM
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Science and peer review
Corruption of science, peer review
Ann's Fuse Box

I've mentioned before that there is a problem in the peer-review system in science. Particularly in heavily government-funded or political areas like global warming. Here's another.

[ Reason, blogtrail: Corner ] What is unusual is the especially shoddy nature of the current scientific review process on global warming papers.

Consider the recent Nature article. If hurricanes had doubled in power in the last few decades as Emanuel claims, the change would be obvious; you wouldn't need a weatherman to know which way this wind was blowing. All of these feuding scientists would have agreed on the facts long ago.

[...] You would think that reviewers of Emanuel’s paper at Nature would have thought to ask whether, in fact, there was evidence for increasingly powerful storms.

But they didn't. There is just no incentive in the scientific community to kill the remarkably fertile global warming goose, a beast that feeds on public fears.

The federal outlay on climate research is now $4.2 billion per year, roughly the same amount given to the National Cancer Institute. The climate research community sees a grave threat when research shows there's no threat from the climate. So papers that hawk climate disaster get superficial reviews and uncritical headlines, while those that argue otherwise are "shameful."

The author of that is listed as: "Patrick J. Michaels is Cato Institute senior fellow for environmental studies and author of Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media."

Just labelling a person as a "scientist" does not make them holy or suddenly make them disinterested in their own work.
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