At Arstechnica, they say: Fiction author Michael Crichton probably started the backlash against the idea of consensus in science. Crichton was rather notable for doubting the conclusions of climate scientists—he…
Category: 97% consensus
The Climate Science Zombie Apocalypse is coming
We’ve all heard of the “zombie apocalypse”, it gets all sorts of humorous opinions about it, t-shirts, websites, iPhone covers, even the CDC got in on the act. Now, with the…
New paper: Fraud, Bias & Public Relations – The 97% ‘Consensus’ And Its Critics
Claims of 97% consensus on global warming depend on research described as fraudulent and biased London, 8 September: A new briefing note published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation examines claims…
Monday mirthiness – 97 hours, 97 opinions, 97% consensus, 100% cartooned climate science
The latest propaganda stunt from the Skeptical Science Kidz is underway and it is about as exciting as it is predictable. Every hour, a new opinion is revealed along with…
The 'Skeptical Science' kidz are up to no good again
Ah those kidz, what are they up to now? (Update: It has been figured out, see below) The image you see is from their “new” web page [www.skepticalscience.com/nsh/?] which is…
A psychologist's scathing review of John Cook's '97% consensus' nonsensus paper
Psychologist José Duarte writes: The Cook et al. (2013) 97% paper included a bunch of psychology studies, marketing papers, and surveys of the general public as scientific endorsement of anthropogenic…
William Connolley demonstrates once again why Wikipedia is an untrustworthy reference source
I saw this coming a mile away. On Wednesday August 20th, Dr. Roy Spencer noted how John Cook’s well debunked 97% ‘consensus’ claim, based of statistical sleight of hand and…
Somebody in psychology finally 'gets it' about Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook and their 'smear science'
Social psychologist Jose Duarte pulls no punches in describing Lewandowsky’s failures of science in the “Moon Hoax” paper and the later retracted “Fury” paper. And then goes on to describe…
Quote of the Week – The 'Lie Big' Law (Or why can't John Cook tell the truth?)
Two words of the headline are a pun on Liebig’s law, something we covered in the context of another big lie: the “hockey stick”. Steve McIntyre in a post last…
EPA document supports ~3% of atmospheric carbon dioxide is attributable to human sources
NOTE: this post has an error, see update below. – Anthony From a Wry Heat reprinted with permission of Jonathan DuHamel A new post on The Hockey Schtick reviews a…
Quote of the week – the last word on '97% consensus', now in a bumper sticker
Over at Scientific American, a place that isn’t hardly Scientific, nor American anymore (its owned by Germans IIRC) there’s a big row over Cook’s shoddy “97% consensus” paper in comments,…
Climate Consensus? Nonsense!
by E. Calvin Beisner July 16, 2014–So, someone privately messaged us saying her friend had posted this article, and she (who messaged us) wondered how we’d respond. Okay, we give…
Calling all UK Skeptics – Free Talk with 97% Bias – plus the ability to ask questions
UPDATE: It’s a double feature, Mann will be there too, see below From the University of Bristol: Dogma vs. consensus: Letting the evidence speak on climate change 19 September 2014,…
The climate consensus is not 97% – it's 100%
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Shock news from the Heartland Institute’s Ninth International Climate Change Conference: among the 600 delegates, the consensus that Man contributes to global warming was not…
Swedish farmers reject the 97% climate change consensus
From ScienceNordic: Researchers the world over almost unanimously agree that our climate is changing … But many farmers – at least Swedish ones – have experienced mild winters and shifting…
The disagreement over what defines 'endorsment of AGW' by Cook et al. is revealed in raters remarks, and it sure isn't a 97% consensus
The Cook ratings document contains some incredible remarks, one of which is documented here. According to it, “the training period in the initial stages of the rating period” covered more…
100 percent consensus finally achieved on climate
We all know that the bogus “97% consensus” number has been the staple bullet point of non-thinking climate activists everywhere. Now, I’m sure they will be thrilled to see that…
Richard Tol Fights back – with an article in the Guardian showing that Cook's 97% consensus is actually 'nonsensus'
Consensus is irrelevant in science. There are plenty of examples in history where everyone agreed and everyone was wrong. While I admit to being quite surprised they’d allow him equal…
BUSTED: Tol takes on Cook's '97% consensus' claim with a re-analysis, showing the claim is 'unfounded'
A new paper by Dr. Richard Tol published today in ScienceDirect, journal of Energy Policy, shows that the Cook et al. paper claiming that there is a 97% consensus among…
An Open Letter puts the University of Queensland in a dilemma over John Cook's '97% consensus' paper
Rud Istvan, sends this open letter along for publication and writes: This puts UQ on the horns of a terrible dilemma. The preferred political response is always to sweep such a…
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