Guest Science! (as in “she blinded me with”) critique by David Middleton One of the best things about my morning emails from the American Association for the Advancement of Science…
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AAASofA: “Pentagon fires a warning shot against EPA’s ‘secret science’ rule”… Riiiight.
Guest ridicule of the American Association for the Advancement of Science of America by David Middleton See update at end of post. This little gem was in my morning email…
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope gets big funding boost from Republicans and the NSF’s and AAASA’s ungrateful responses.
Guest commentary by David Middleton Back in March, Eric Worrall authored a nice post about “climate scientists running for congress.” Eric’s subject was a really goofy Clean Technica article about Joseph Kopser,…
AAAS Apologizes — Rightfully So
Brief by Kip Hansen American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has apologized for emailing out a fund-raising promotion that was misleading and apparently politically motivated — that is,…
AAAS: "Let’s hold them accountable"
Guest post by David Middleton This morning, I received another email from the American Association for the Advancement of Science… We cannot overstate this: Under the current administration, the future…
Ooops! Not all 31 scientific societies actually signed the AAAS ‘consensus’ letter
Recursive Lies and “Scientific Consensus” Letters Guest opinion by Leo Goldstein The ”Consensus” Letter on Climate Change (06/28/2016), allegedly signed by leaders of 31 scientific organizations and published on the…
Attempt by AAAS at climate consensus underscores the fact the 'science is not a democracy'
From the “so what?” department and the American Association for the Advancement of Science via Eurekalert: Thirty-one top scientific societies speak with one voice on global climate change In a…
From #AAAS Why Some (Many?) Scientists Tend to Hype their Findings
Guest essay By Indur M. Goklany In case there was any doubt that many scientists are like the rest of humanity, not to mention Brian Williams, the Pew Research Center…
Advances in research of electric car batteries presented at #AAAS
A number of interesting things have occurred at the AAAS meeting in San Jose the last few days, here is one that caught my eye. As many readers know, I…
AAAS on reproducibility – 'a cornerstone of science'
Reproducibility — the ability to redo an experiment and get the same results — is a cornerstone of science, but it has been the subject of some troubling news lately.…
AAAS’s Guide to Climate Alarmism aka 'What We Know'
By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger Back in the Bush II Administration, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) nakedly tried to nudge the political…
To AAAS: What we know? Earth hasn't warmed significantly in over a decade, climate models failed to predict this
One really has to laugh at the repackaging attempt by AAAS. Meanwhile: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Releases “What We Know” and Kicks Off Initiative to Recognize…
AAAS – "science is not enough"
Doug Jones writes in with this: WUWT readers may be interested to see what the AAAS is doing with members’ funding. I’m amused that they baldly admit that they want…
Bizarre: NYT follows AAAS lead on "FOIA requests equate to death threats"
Chris Horner of the American Tradition Institute writes in with this: So the American Association for the Advancement of Science, thoroughly rattled by the American Tradition Institute’s FOIA requests of…
AAAS withdraws "impossible" global warming paper
Complaints over “impossible conclusions” cited as the reason. from CTV: EurekAlert withdraws climate change paper A study warning that the planet would warm by 2.4C by 2020, creating deadly consequences…
Gavin to attend AAAS "we shall overcome" seminar
UPDATE: An AAAS member and WUWT reader relates how he’s finally had enough, and has canceled his AAAS membership today. See below the “Continue reading>” line. Gee, it’s been a…
AAAS Delta Force
This in my inbox today from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are soliciting ideas. The WUWT readership may want to send some along. Here’s the political…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #594
“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” – Albert Einstein
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #592
“A coincidence of interests is always more powerful than a conspiracy.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #590
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.”
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #588
There is one feature I notice that is generally missing in cargo cult science [pseudoscience]…It’s a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind…
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #587
Without Freedom of Thought there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech.” — Benjamin Franklin (1722)
Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #581
“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.” – Bertrand Russell, “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”