Tag Archives: Skeptical Science

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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Dana Nuccitelli’s holiday trick for sobering up quick: put a little less rum in your egg nog

Posted on December 28, 2012 by

Guest post by Alec Rawls When he argues that a reduction in forcing will cause cooling Dana Nuccitelli is not actually talking about drinking. He is talking about the solar forcing of global temperature, but the drinking analogy is a handy … Continue reading →

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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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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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‘Skeptical’ ‘Science’ gets it all wrong – yet again

Posted on December 4, 2012 by

Guest post by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Even the name of the “Skeptical” “Science” blog is a lie. The blog is neither skeptical nor scientific. It is a malicious, paid propaganda platform for rude, infantile, untruthful, and often libelous attacks … Continue reading →

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‘Wrong way Nuccitelli’ hits a rock in the road

Posted on November 12, 2012 by

Over at Dr. Roger Pielke Sr’s  website there’s a takedown in Physics Letters A of dogmatic eco-activist and “Skeptical Science” cohort Dana Nuccitelli, along with the rest of the SkS crew, regarding their (now failed) recent rebuttal to Douglas et … Continue reading →

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Mutiny of the bounties – Heartland responds to ridiculous Truthmarket campaign

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

This is even more ridiculous than Stephan Lewandowsky’s “moon landing conspiracy theory paper” and Skeptical Science’s sekrit “crusher crew” kids klub managed by John Cook. I suppose the people pushing these things just have no idea what clowns they look … 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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Quote of the week, the hilarious EPIC FAIL of Dana Nuccitelli

Posted on September 19, 2012 by

This has been a weird week with my appearance on PBS Newshour. As Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters documents, the alarmosphere has gone beserk over my appearance on PBS. Watching it, it becomes clear they are in a panic. Even Ralph … 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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‘…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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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 Daily Lew – Issue 4

Posted on September 14, 2012 by

LewWorld still has no comment of substance, and in the ‘Skeptical Science’ style, is furiously deleting inconvenient comments that ask questions like “What are you going to do now that the removal of the fake responses shows a conclusion reverse … Continue reading →

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The Cook-Lewandowsky Social-Internet Link

Posted on September 12, 2012 by

UPDATE: For all you angry taunting types (Stoat aka William M. Connolley for example) that claim that this post represents a claim of conspiracy theory itself (hint: try to find the word in the post) you might want to register … Continue reading →

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Mike’s Amazon Trick

Posted on September 7, 2012 by

Over at Bishop Hill, there’s an eye opening story by Shub Niggurath about the orchestration of book reviews for Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars using John Cook’s “secret” forum for the climate “in” crowd. It is a … Continue reading →

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Stephan Lewandowsky’s slow motion Psychological Science train wreck

Posted on September 5, 2012 by

I’m a bit of a latecomer to this affair, as Lucia and Jo Nova took an early lead on pointing out the many problems with the survey methodology (or lack thereof) with the paper: Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Gignac, … Continue reading →

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Apparently Governor Brown, you’ve never visited the weather station at Lake Tahoe

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

I had to laugh. Governor Jerry “moonbeam” Brown has created a comical clone of the Skeptical Science website at his state office website, and announced it today in lake Tahoe with this missive via the Sacramento Bee’s Capitol Alert: The … Continue reading →

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Dusting for Fingerprints in the Holocene

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

Guest Post by David Middleton Fingerprints are admissible evidence in criminal trials because of their uniqueness. The probability of two human beings having identical fingerprints is very low. Measurements of δ13C depletion have often been cited as anthropogenic “fingerprints,” proving … Continue reading →

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