Quoted in a USA Today call for social media censorship, John Cook, who once thought it amusing to self portrait himself as a NAZI officer, is outraged people could believe…
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Pielke Jr. on John Cook’s Ministry of Truthotron
They are automating character assassination & calling it “science”
John Cook: “Machine learning holds a key to combating [climate] misinformation”
After training a computer to look for online climate “misinformation”, John Cook was surprised that people don’t trust the proposed solutions.
New John Cook 97% Consensus Climate Change Video
John Cook has released a new video which attacks a climate skeptic straw man, to try to bolster his 97% climate consensus claim.
John Cook, Lewandowsky Claim Psychological Vaccine Against Climate Wrongthink
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Cartoonist John Cook has attempted to employ his personal expertise on strange aberrations to help our old friend Stephan Lewandowsky create a psychological “vaccine”, to…
Climate skeptic basher John Cook joins the George Mason University #RICO20 gang
Via GMU press release: We are delighted to announce that John Cook, PhD will be joining our team as a Research Assistant Professor, beginning January 2017. Initially trained as a…
John Cook is cooking up more 97% consensus, while two papers refute his statistical sleights of hand
We’ve had the climate wars, now we have the consensus wars, and it appears Cook’s side and his publisher aren’t playing fair with the numbers, or with the review/rebuttal process.…
Debate between John Cook and Marc Morano in Paris
Marc Morano writes: A debate just finished within the hour here today. Cook interviewed me on camera and I audio recorded for my protection. He is going to post full…
Saturday satire – The Strange World of John Cook
Josh writes: As you know John Cook, of Skeptical Science blog, has been impersonating Lubos Motl, read Lubos blog here, but also posted here on WUWT and the Air Vent, here and here. Why John Cook thought this…
Yes, why DOES John Cook of 'SkepticalScience' and the 97% have to use identity theft in his 'research'?
If it wasn’t enough that John Cook dresses himself up as a Nazi in his SkS uniform on his forum, now we have him caught in what looks to be identity…
A Review of John Cook's UQx DENIAL 101x
By James Cook (no relation) DENIAL 101x is a University of Queensland MOOC being promoted as helping people understand the new phenomenon of “Science Denialism”, led by John Cook, a…
John Cook's claim of a 'warmer southern ocean' is proven wrong
Paul Homewood notes: According to John Cook, Antarctic sea ice has been expanding because the Southern Ocean is getting warmer. He also claims that anyone thinking more ice is due…
A psychologist's scathing review of John Cook's '97% consensus' nonsensus paper
Psychologist José Duarte writes: The Cook et al. (2013) 97% paper included a bunch of psychology studies, marketing papers, and surveys of the general public as scientific endorsement of anthropogenic…
Somebody in psychology finally 'gets it' about Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook and their 'smear science'
Social psychologist Jose Duarte pulls no punches in describing Lewandowsky’s failures of science in the “Moon Hoax” paper and the later retracted “Fury” paper. And then goes on to describe…
Quote of the Week – The 'Lie Big' Law (Or why can't John Cook tell the truth?)
Two words of the headline are a pun on Liebig’s law, something we covered in the context of another big lie: the “hockey stick”. Steve McIntyre in a post last…
An Open Letter puts the University of Queensland in a dilemma over John Cook's '97% consensus' paper
Rud Istvan, sends this open letter along for publication and writes: This puts UQ on the horns of a terrible dilemma. The preferred political response is always to sweep such a…
John Cook and University of Queensland experience at least 97% of the 'Streisand effect' in the Washington Post
This just in from the “I told you so” and “what the hell were they thinking?” departments, Eugene Volokh writes in The Volokh Conspiracy at the Washington Post: Is it…
More pear-shaped trouble for John Cook's '97% consensus'
Readers may recall the post John Cook’s 97% consensus claim is about to go ‘pear-shaped’. This is an update to that, in two parts. First is the introduction, and the…
John Cook's 97% consensus claim is about to go 'pear-shaped'
pear shaped (slang) A British expression used to indicate that something has gone horribly wrong with a person’s plans, most commonly in the phrase “It’s all gone pear shaped.”The OED…
That noise you can hear in the distance is the sound of John Cook's, Dana Nuccitelli’s, and Joe Romm's heads exploding
Lindzen, Christy and Curry appointed to APS climate statement review panel Simon from Australian Climate Madness reports: The American Physical Society, which previously issued a highly alarmist statement regarding climate change,…
Skeptical Science's John Cook – Making **** Up
Guest essay by Brandon Shollenberger Last week, John Cook published a piece in the Europhysics News magazine in which he, quite literally, fabricates a quote. You can see the details…
Fuzzy math: In a new soon to be published paper, John Cook claims 'consensus' on 32.6% of scientific papers that endorse AGW
You have to wonder how somebody can write (let alone read) the claims made here in the press release by Cook with a straight face. It gives a window into…
John Cook's new survey – lots of questions, no answers
I and (according to Cook) 50 other blogs (with a supposed 50/50 skeptic to advocate split) have received this invitation: Hi Anthony As one of the more highly trafficked climate…
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