Guest essay by Peter O’Brien I gave up reading Robert Ludlum novels about forty years ago. The highly convoluted and improbable plots became just too irritating. But recently, thanks…
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'Intellectual yet idiotic': the sad case of Stephan Lewandowsky
Guest opinion by Drieu Godefridi In a new paper just published with two other authors “The ‘Alice in Wonderland’ mechanics of the rejection of (climate) science: simulating coherence by conspiracism“,…
Lewandowsky and Cook Study: "Deniers" Cannot Provide a Coherent Alternate Worldview
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The increasingly frantic efforts to “medicalise” criticism of climate orthodoxy has taken a new turn, with a claim that theories cannot be disproven in of…
How 'consensus science' blew the Solar Cycle 24 prediction, which turned out to be the lowest in 100 years
A few years ago, the best solar models predicted that Solar Cycle 24 would be larger than Solar Cycle 23. Here is a plot from NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center…
Lewandowsky's Psychological Science publishing hoax reaches the media
From Paul Matthew’s Climate Scepticism blog: In the blogosphere, the hoax paper by Lewandowsky, Oberauer and Gignac, NASA faked the moon landing—therefore, (climate) science is a hoax was exposed soon after it…
Stephan Lewandowsky's "Moon Landing Paper" scathingly criticized by team of psychologists in a new book
There is a new book about to be published titled: The Social Psychology of Morality, which is to be published by the Psychology Press. I and several other skeptic bloggers have been given…
UWA and @PsychScience look the other way on Lewandowsky's use of minors without consent in his "Conspiracist Ideation" and "Moon Landing" paper
Psychologist Dr. Jose Duarte writes: The Lewandowsky, Gignac, and Oberauer paper in PLOS ONE has been substantially corrected. I had alerted the journal last fall that there were serious errors…
Shades of Lewandowsky and Cook: When psychological science isn't so sciency
Sound familiar? A study revealing a stunning lack of reproducibility in psychological science triggers another instance of reluctance to share data with any but friends, and an “adjustment” of data…
If only Lewandowsky, Cook, Nuccitelli, Hayhoe and others could learn from their OWN mistakes…
From the “It’s science Jim – but not as we know it” department. (h/t Foxgoose) Sheesh. Another shedload of 97% consensus, spun to fit Paris COP21. The hubris here is…
Where's Lewandowsky and Cook when they are needed to look at REAL 'conspiracy ideation', like murder plots from 'big oil'?
Wow, this is just bonkers. Lewandowsky and Cook would have a field day with this one, except, Dr. Wadhams is on their team (the warmist team) and thus would never…
Lewandowsky and Cook – back from the dead with another smear paper
Having had their first paper “Recursive Fury” retracted by the journal that originally published it, these clowns are back with a reboot that has the same sad message: “people who…
Uh, oh: Looks like Lewandowsky and Oreskes will be going after the AGU now for admitting the 'hiatus' exists
Given Lew and Oreskes latest admonition to scientists who use the word “pause” or “hiatus” it looks like they’ll be applying the “D” word to the entire AGU community of…
Mainstream climate scientist pushes back against Lewandowsky's 'seepage'
The indefatigable Barry Woods has left this comment over on Lewandowsky’s “Shaping Tomorrow’s World” blog on “seepage”. It features IPCC lead author Professor Peter Thorne, who is none too happy…
Lewandowsky's Competing Theories for Source of Bias in Scientific Research
You Ought to Have a Look: By Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. “Chip” Knappenberger Two papers were announced this week that sought to examine the sources of bias in…
A disturbance in the farce: Another hateful and pointless paper from Stephan Lewandowsky and Naomi Oreskes
Lewpaper, version 3.0, now with even more rhetoric. One wonders if the University of Bristol has any shame. Barry Woods has an excellent comment that follows, pointing out how this…
Aussie Government gives $4 million to Bjørn Lomborg, to set up a "Consensus Centre" at Lewandowsky's old university
The Australian Abbott government has granted Bjørn Lomborg $4 million, to set up a “consensus centre” at the University of West Australia. According to The Guardian; The Abbott government found…
Finally: peer reviewed pushback against the Lewandowsky, Oberauer, and Gignac paper
Paul Matthews writes: Ruth Dixon and Jonathan Jones have had a comment published in Psychological Science criticising the LOG ‘Moon hoax’ paper (Psych Science) and LGO ‘Role of Conspiracist Ideation’…
32,757 year old survey participant skews Lewandowsky paper – Defective data, demonstrably defective conclusion
Guest essay by Eric Worrall. JoNova reports on a hilarious error in Lewandowsky’s paper “The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science” . The calculated age…
More insane conspiracy theory from Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky of Bristol University
A new paper by Stephan Lewandowsky once again projects his own conspiracy ideation onto skeptics Extract: One known element of conspiratorial thinking is its ‘self-sealing’ quality (Keeley 1999, Bale 2007,…
Wrapped in Lew Papers: The psychology of climate psychologization – Part3
Guest essay by Andy West ∙Third of 3 posts examining papers by Lewandowsky & co-authors before ‘conspiracy ideation’ claims. These papers warn of cognitive bias effects, all of which occur…
Wrapped in Lew Papers: The psychology of climate psychologization – Part2
This is the second of 3 posts by Andy West examining papers by Lewandowsky & co-authors before ‘conspiracy ideation’ claims. These papers warn of cognitive bias effects, all of which…
Wrapped in Lew Papers: The psychology of climate psychologization – Part1
Guest essay by Andy West ∙First of 3 posts examining papers by Lewandowsky & co-authors before ‘conspiracy ideation’ claims. These papers warn of cognitive bias effects, all of which occur…
Fish story: 'Fish moving poleward at rate of 26 kilometers per decade'
From the University of British Columbia via Eurekalert Fish moving poleward at rate of 26 kilometers per decade Large numbers of fish will disappear from the tropics by 2050, finds…
Friday Funny – Lewandowsky and Cook on the Arctic Sea Ice Bucket challenge, sans ALS
From the Cabot Institute blog, where we await them posting the full videos of the Cook and Mann lectures. The “lewpaper” cartoon from Josh gets a cameo appearance in this…
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