Category Archives: Stephan Lewandowsky

Is John Cook planning to use systematically biased “correct” survey answers to make unbiased skeptics look biased?

Posted on May 8, 2013 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls After finalizing a long post on John Cook’s crowd-sourced consensus-rating survey  (to be titled “I take Cook’s survey so you don’t have to”), I submitted my completed survey to Cook’s website and received an automated … Continue reading →

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Monday Mirthiness – John’s cooked up Skeptical Science survey

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

When I was first contacted by Skeptical Science proprietor John Cook about his request to have WUWT host a survey, I asked him several questions because I had misgivings about the design. He refused to answer my questions, and now … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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More shameless conspiracy theory from the ‘Skeptical Science’ smear quest team

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

You’ve all heard of a religious “grail quest“, I submit what we have here is an ongoing religious “smear quest”. The cartoonist (John Cook, purveyor of the laughably named “Skeptical Science”) and the psychologist (Stephan Lewandowsky), the two rightmost people … 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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Climate Ugliness goes nuclear

Posted on November 23, 2012 by

From Jo Nova, just unbelievable. Of course Lewandowsky is involved too: Skeptics equated to pedophiles — Robyn Williams ABC. Time to protest. Hat tip to Graham Young editor of Online Opinion. Follow his twitter account. These comments by Williams are … 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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Skeptical Science conspiracy theorist John Cook runs another survey trying to prove that false “97% of climate scientists believe in global warming” meme

Posted on September 23, 2012 by

People send me stuff. Even though I’m supposed to be on break, I thought this worth a few minutes to post up. I have redacted the recipient address as well as the exact time stamp, and the suffix code in … 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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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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