Tag Archives: John Cook

The Collapsing ‘Consensus’

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

 Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Environmental Research Letters ought to have known better than to publish the latest anti-scientific propaganda paper by John Cook of the dubiously-named Skeptical Science website. Here are just a few of the solecisms … Continue reading →

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The 97% consensus – a lie of epic proportions

Posted on May 17, 2013 by

To John Cook – it isn’t ‘hate’, it’s pity, – pity for having such a weak argument you are forced to fabricate conclusions of epic proportions Proving that crap can flow uphill, yesterday, John Cook got what one could consider … Continue reading →

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Skeptical Science kidz channel Inigo Montoya in new ‘consensus’ paper

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

All you can do is laugh. Brandon Shollenberger writes at Lucia’s about the new Fuzzy Math consensus “proof” paper from the ever entertaining John Cook at Skeptical Science, rated with the help of 27 of the SkS kidz club. The … Continue reading →

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Fuzzy math: In a new soon to be published paper, John Cook claims ‘consensus’ on 32.6% of scientific papers that endorse AGW

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

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 the sort of things we can expect from his borked … Continue reading →

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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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John Cook’s new survey – lots of questions, no answers

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

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 blogs on the web, I’m seeking your assistance in conducting … 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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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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A Conspiracy of One

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

Guest post by Brandon Shollenberger Words cannot describe the humor of Michael Mann’s latest post: As professional climate change deniers become increasingly irrelevant and desperate, so do their distraction and smear efforts. These are mostly just noise in the background … 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 →

Posted in Climate ugliness, Stephan Lewandowsky | Tagged , , , , , , , | 106 Comments

Beyond bizarre: University of Graz music professor calls for skeptic death sentences

Posted on December 23, 2012 by

[Update, Parncutt has pulled his page, the webcite link still works, 1:00 am PDT 12/24/12 ~mod] UPDATE2:  9AM PST 1/24 The Parncutt page now gets a 404 “file not found” error, which to me suggests that University of  Graz officials … Continue reading →

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‘Skeptical Science’, Shouting, and Joe Romm’s integrity – a test

Posted on September 30, 2012 by

Over at Climate Progress, the alarmist organ of the Center for American Progress, Joe Romm is fond of citing an offhand remark from this WUWT story as “proof” of my alleged evilness. “Scientists” Pull a Snow Job on Reporters in … Continue reading →

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Skeptical Science gets Romm-Bombed

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

Reposted from Popular Technology with permission Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe Romm In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums “hacked” and the contents posted online. In these it was revealed that Skeptical 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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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 →

Posted in Climate ugliness, Opinion, Stephan Lewandowsky | Tagged , , , , , | 107 Comments

‘…we need a conspiracy to save humanity’

Posted on September 15, 2012 by

I posted this on the Daily Lew Issue 5 as an update, but I decided it was so telling of the state of mind for the SkS crowd that it needed its own separate post. This also happens to be … Continue reading →

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