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New paper from Otto et al and Nic lewis shows transient climate sensitivity less than 2C

Posted on May 19, 2013 by

UPDATE: this post has been superseded by the new guest essay from Nic Lewis which you can see here: New paper shows transient climate response less than 2°C

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Lewandowsky et al 2013: surveying Peter to report on Paul

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

Guest analysis by Shub Niggurath In 2012, Stephan Lewandowsky and co-authors submitted a paper to the journal Psychological Science, generating widespread publicity. Here, I address a simple issue/question that has hovered around the paper from the time it made its … Continue reading →

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Stephan Lewandowsky ‘flees’ Australia in wake of investigations

Posted on April 28, 2013 by

People send me stuff. Amid complaints about the veracity and ethics of his psychological research trying to equate climate skeptics to conspiracy theory nuts and “moon landing deniers”, it seems that Professor Lewandowsky is no longer at the University of … Continue reading →

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Lewandowsky paper ‘provisionally removed’ due to complaints

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

UPDATE: Steve McIntyre has an interesting letter about the Lewandowsky and Cook affair here. Retraction Watch writes: Last week, we covered the complicated story of a paper by Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues that had been removed — or at least … Continue reading →

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Second Lewandowsky conspiracy theory paper delinked from journal

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

I’ve been waiting to get some confirmation on this since yesterday , and now that I have it, I can state that the link to the second Lew paper Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on … Continue reading →

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McIntyre’s dissection of the Cook-Lewandowsky “Lying/deceiving/incompetence” complex

Posted on March 28, 2013 by

You don’t need a degree in psychology to figure this one out, you simply need to be an astute observer. Steve McIntyre writes: Last fall, Geoff Chambers and Barry Woods established beyond a shadow of a doubt that no blog … Continue reading →

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Some thoughts on the recent Lewandowsky-Cook conspiracy theory

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

Reversing Curie Guest post by Tom Fuller from The Lukewarmer’s Way The online journal Frontiers promises open access and peer review. They have recently published Stefan Lewandowsky’s paper ‘Recursive Fury: conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation’. … Continue reading →

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Don’t let Cook and Lewandowsky see this…

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

…because you might be accused of participating in conspiracy ideation. Here’s the premise from Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.: The occasion for their update is a recent report by the Australian Climate Commission, a government body put established to advocate for … Continue reading →

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Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook – making things up

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

Fabricated quotes and gross distortions are used to paint skeptics as conspiracy nuts.  The question is, is it a conspiracy, or is it just incompetence? Guest post by Brandon Shollenberger Many people have shown interest and scorn for a recently … Continue reading →

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Lewandowsky’s latest smear paper gets pulled from the journal website

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

Readers may recall these two recent WUWT stories: More shameless conspiracy theory from the ‘Skeptical Science’ smear quest team Lewandowsky’s bear-baiting behavior Tonight I’m pleased to report, that one skeptic who stood up and complained about Lewandowsky’s libelous claims, has … Continue reading →

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Lewandowsky’s bear-baiting behavior

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

Skeptic Baiting and Academic Misconduct Guest post by Tom Fuller, writing at The Lukewarmer’s Way I see here at Watts Up With That that Australian professor Stephan Lewandowsky has teamed up with other climate activists to publish a paper designed to … Continue reading →

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Hypocritical psychology professor Lewandowsky: Climate science is, like, super-transparent, only with lots of “confidential” documents; climate science is like gravity

Posted on December 15, 2012 by

From Tom Nelson, it was too good not to repost, especially when Lewandowsky hands out moral lessons while being immoral himself with his labeling skeptics as “moon landing deniers” with a gussed up survey and statistical slight of hand that … Continue reading →

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Lewandowsky’s bait and switch

Posted on October 12, 2012 by

More on the now infamous “moon landing denier“” statistical paper. Question – how did this title for a scientific paper: Understanding Statistical Trends Turn into this? NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the … Continue reading →

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Lewandowsky backs down – removes “denier” citation from paper

Posted on September 27, 2012 by

Jeff Condon writes at the Air Vent: Over the past few weeks I have had several communications with Dr. Lewandowsky regarding his wonderful contribution to science very appropriately titled: MOTIVATED REJECTION OF SCIENCE NASA faked the moon landing|Therefore (Climate) Science … Continue reading →

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McIntyre takes down Lewandowsky’s fabricated statistical claims

Posted on September 21, 2012 by

Conspiracy-Theorist Lewandowsky Tries to Manufacture Doubt By Steve McIntyre As CA readers are aware, Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia recently published an article relying on fraudulent responses at stridently anti-skeptic blogs to yield fake results. In addition, it … Continue reading →

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McIntyre on Lewandowsky’s Fake Correlation

Posted on September 19, 2012 by

Steve McIntyre takes Lewandowsky’s statistical screed to task and writes: Lewandowsky’s most recent blog post really makes one wonder about the qualifications at the University of West Anglia Western Australia. Lewandowsky commenced his post as follows: The science of statistics … Continue reading →

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The Daily Lew – Issue 6 – drill baby, drill.

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

LewWorld has increased its spin and is now “drilling into noise“. The resulting increased spin and precession looks to be creating dangerous wobble on LewWorld. Meanwhile while Lew is drilling for noise, McIntyre has tried to get the same results … Continue reading →

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Toodle, Lew

Posted on September 15, 2012 by

Guest post by Thomas Fuller The medicalization of dissent is a delicate topic to bring up in conversations about climate change. If you use it about somebody you’re almost instantly associating them with really evil people who used the tactic … Continue reading →

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The Daily Lew – Issue 5

Posted on September 15, 2012 by

(See the update below where SkS compares Climate Skeptics to the Viet Cong along with needing….”a conspiracy to save humanity”.) LewWorld continues to crumble from within and Skeptical Science has been exposed as conspiracy theory central, according to Dr. Judith … Continue reading →

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The Lewandowsky participation census, re-booted

Posted on September 14, 2012 by

Steve McIntyre provides this update: The purpose of this post is to take a census of all skeptics who participated in the Lewandosky survey in 2010.

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