Bishop Hill reports that one of his readers, Paul Matthews, has nominated Steve McIntyre for the Maddox Prize:
I nominate Stephen McIntyre for the John Maddox Prize for standing up for science. He meets the requirements of the prize – he has raised concerns about misleading information about climate change, spoken up for rigorous evidence backed up by publicly available data, aided understanding of this complex issue through his papers, blog and talks, and faced difficulty and hostility with admirable equanimity.
The full nomination paper is here.
The Maddox prize is modest, but I think the announcement is the best part:
The prize: £2000. An announcement of the winner will be published in Nature.
I hope Steve wins. Good luck to him.
Steve richly deserves the prize for all his work over the years. It would be more significant than winning the Nobel Prize these days. One could enjoy seeing Nature Magazine eat humble pie. We had better enjoy it all now, as it will probably be blocked by the usual suspects.
Remember the early days, when the “consensus” said that scientific publishing with its “peer-review” and data policies was just fine?
Seems that “transparency” is going mainstream.
http://the-scientist.com/2012/08/01/bring-on-the-transparency-index/
One of the key measures:
” Whether the journal requires that underlying data are made available”
First they ignore you…
Smokey says:
August 22, 2012 at 2:29 pm
eyesonu,
A Nobel Prize doesn’t mean as much as it used to. ☺
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Good one. 😉
Steve Mc has already won the most important award.
Come to think of it, Anthony has as well. Both have asked hard questions addressing the very foundations of the data stream. Is this not the intent of this award?
Too bad these Nature folks do not have the cobbles to admit the veracity of Anthony and Steve’s contribution.
I hope Mr. McIntyre wins as well. After all of the absurd and malicious responses to his excellent and tireless efforts he has stood the test of time and done so in an exceedingly resilient and composed fashion.