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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 Western Australia and has moved to the UK and is practicing his craft at Bristol University, managing to convince the Royal Society to give him a grant:
Professors Stephan Lewandowsky, Chair in Cognitive Psychology in the School of Experimental Psychology, and Fred Manby, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry in the Centre for Computational Chemistry, have both been successful in securing this prestigious award from the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science.
I know of at least two, possibly more, professional complaints that are in progress against Lewdandowsy (and his sidekick, Skeptical Science’ s John Cook) at the University of Western Australia for his data fabrication and his questionable science composed of outlandish made-up claims designed to smear climate skeptics worldwide.
His most recent skeptic smear paper has been taken down, pending investigation.
No announcement or reason for the move was made that I (or others) can find so far. UWA still has his page in place here and there’s a new page at Bristol University here. Neither page says anything about this move or status, and at his blog Shaping Tomorrow’s World there’s no mention of this change in his bio page. The last update was by John Cook on March 22nd.
It will be interesting to see how Lewandowsky’s furtive exit will affect UWA’s handling of the various complaints.
h/t to A. Scott and to Jo Nova who also has some thoughts here on how Bristol University and the Royal Society have now come to “own” Lewandowsky’s baggage.
UPDATE: Richard Tol provides some insight in comments. I wasn’t aware of a “mobility award” and there is nothing in the announcement he cites about it or its conditions.
Lewandowsky won a mobility award: http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2013/9330.html The grant is conditional on him moving to Bristol.
There is a long lag between initial idea, grant application, and award. This has nothing to do with recent events.
So while his move may cool the complaints raised at UWA, it seems that he’s simply “following the money”.
Here’s Lewandowsky’s video:
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Richard,
I doubt that Fascism disgusts you as you don’t even know what it is. It is very hard to be disgusted by that which you do not know. You are not the first who has accused me of being a Fascist simply because I know what it is. So I’m rather cold to such an response. Taking the time to learn about Fascism is not promoting it. As I said I am a conservative. I favor Lockean limited government where the government exists only to serve that which the individual practically cannot. Lockean limited government is antithetical to Fascism. The government is simply not powerful enough for Fascism to work. Fascism is the natural result of powerful government. It is what happened in Rome. It is what is happening now. No matter what the founding principles of any government as long as the government has great power the government will eventually become Fascist.
richardscourtney –
“H1tler was a fascist; i.e. ultra-right. He claimed he was “in the middle”.
You say you agree with H1tler that “he was in the middle”..
I do NOT agree with H1tler and that does NOT mean I agree with Stalin; I do not.”
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Fascism and Communism are distinguishable how? By gulags vs stalags? Mass murder vs mass murder? KGB vs Abwehr/Gestapo?
The mistake is in thinking in a linear fashion. Bend that line into a circle and the fascist and the communist stand side by side.
Tom and fretslider:
I do not know if your ignorance is real, pretended, or deliberate. But it is reprehensible.
Totalitarianism is evil whomever or whatever political philosophy applies it.
The idea that all totalitarians have the same political philosophy is – to put it politely – mistaken.
Excuses for H1tler, Stalin, Pol Pot and etc. don’t wash. And their politics were very different.
This thread is about Lewandowsky and not your liking for ultra-right politics.
If you persist in your attempts to disrupt this thread by pushing your politics at me then my responses will only consist of linking to this post.
Richard
Everybody wants to buy cheap and sell expensive. That is as consumers we want free marked. But as workers/sellers we mostly want plan society principles?
richardscourtney says:
I do not know if your ignorance is real, pretended, or deliberate. But it is reprehensible.
Excuses for H1tler, Stalin, Pol Pot and etc. don’t wash. And their politics were very different.
This thread is about Lewandowsky and not your liking for ultra-right politics.
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I’ll forgive your patent naivety. It’s obvious you haven’t a clue.
I made excuses for no-one. The fact that you chose to read that into my reply speaks volumes.
As for disrupting the thread, well you just made a laughing stock of yourself.
fretslider:
re your post at April 29, 2013 at 1:40 pm.
If I made “laughing stock” of myself with ultra-right-wing nutters then I am honoured.
I refer you to my post at April 29, 2013 at 1:25 pm.
Richard
richardscourtney says:
” ultra-right-wing nutters”
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I equated fascism and communism as pretty much the same thing, they have the same result.
You have a lot to learn.
I am neither left nor right. You are deluded.
ReTom:
“I made no comparison with Fascism and what you read in a book written by Marx. I specifically said “Soviet Communism”. In caps specifying a specific thing. This was not an error or a typo. In other words the real thing that actually existed in practice. I suggest you read more critically next time before jumping on a high horse.”
Firstly that sentence doesnt make any sense as a sentence and secondly it bears no relationship to what I said.
He said Communism (OK, Soviet Communism, makes no difference to what he said) is the same as Fascism being both defined by state power. What I pointed out was that Fascism is NOT defined by state power. Bodies which are not states can embody fascism.
“I doubt that Fascism disgusts you as you don’t even know what it is. It is very hard to be disgusted by that which you do not know. You are not the first who has accused me of being a Fascist simply because I know what it is.”
But………HAHAHAHAHA……he obviously knows squat about anything. Its another time-wasting pillock in our midst. Ignore it folks, the noise will go away of its own accord.
Wamron,
Since Mussolini modeled Fascism as a merger of the state, the private sector, and the party, hence the word Fascism from the Latin Fasces representing the strength of this union, I dont know where you get off saying that Fascism doesn’t require the state. I’ll go with Hanlon’s Razor on this one. Fascism absolutely requires a strong central state.
I could go along on the principle of defining the left and right as being the difference between heavily regulated with collective solutions( Marxism and strong religious) and the free with individual solutions( classic liberal)?
Well that can’t last long. How long before the EU states all declare bankruptcy?
DirkH, Tom and fretslider:
It required a World War to put things right the last time your politics gained traction. My family lost everything – yes, everything – in that war, and we would be willing to do it again: very many others would, too.
At April 29, 2013 at 5:51 am DirkH claimed H1tler was not right wing because H1tler said he was “in the middle”.
At April 29, 2013 at 1:49 pm fretslider says, “I am neither left nor right”.
I refer you to my post at April 29, 2013 at 1:25 pm.
Richard
“Jon says:
April 29, 2013 at 10:01 am
Why surprised?”
I’m not. The point is *THEY* are.
“richardscourtney says:
April 29, 2013 at 8:16 am”
You can try to re-write history about Hitler all you like, but that won’t work. What is more interesting, for me (About the war), is that when just before Germany fell and the borders of Europe were “re-written”, if you watch footage of Stalin, Eisenhower, and Churchill on steps at the Tehran conference you can see the levels at which the leaders were sat at. USA, USSR and then Britain. It is clear the political significance of each country was being set right there and then.
@ur momisugly Richard Courtney,
It looks like you’re getting the Alinsky treatment.
Patrick:
I have not, am not, and will not “rewrite history about H1tler”.
He was NOT the misunderstood good guy you bar stewards are trying to pretend.
I refer you to my post at April 29, 2013 at 1:25 pm.
Richard
Richard,
You keep trying to equate the government system of Fascism with Hitler. You cannot personalize a government. Fascism was invented by Mussolini not Hitler. The word is Latin not German. Its origins should be apparent to anyone. You are trying to play Godwin accusing anyone who disagrees with your ignorant definition of Fascism as a Fascist. How Fascist of you. Fascism is not an ideology. National Socialism was the ideology of Germany. The ideology of Mussolini’s Italy was far different but Fascism was the means through which both of the government was run. The ideology of America is Enlightenment. But the government is run as a Federal Republic.
“richardscourtney says:
April 30, 2013 at 6:32 am”
I never said he was misunderstood. He was very charismatic, a great orator, albeit with extreme views on subjects such as race, and had a strong following. He was a rubbish artist and his first book was a flop, which angered him. I did say he was initially left wing and turned extreme right wing after Hindenburg promoted him (Because right wing extremism suited his goals at that time). His second book became a national institution almost, and was compulsory reading too pretty much. When Hindenburg died he was already in the right place at the right time to take full control of the political machine in Germany. The rest is history as we say.
Tom:
re your post at April 30, 2013 at 9:10 am
I refer you to my post at April 29, 2013 at 1:25 pm.
Richard
If Stephan Lewandowsky is like Michael Mann (i.e. AW in response to comment above), does this mean that we will eventually see those who falsely accuse him being investigated for abuse of their positions? (For the avoidance of any doubt, I am referring here to the Attorney General and Governor of Virginia.)
Anyone reading this thread will see clearly that Lewandowsky was right. And that no one on the thread has read or understood his research. Nor for that matter, are they intellectually capable of understanding it.
Offended by the sound bites about it? Sure, that’s easy and everyone here obviously is offended. The truth hurts.
What a slimy load of disgusting comments. Truly, this is some of the worst of the internet.
Mike Barnard,
You are a complete bozo; a despicable Lewandowski apologist.
Run along now, back to your sKs belief-thread. This is the internet’s “Best Science & Technology” site. So you can comment here — and we can laugh at you.
Bozo.