This violates tenets of the hundreds-year-old Scientific Method that require data obtained through experimentation or observation of the physical world as the means of supporting scientific conclusions.
Category: Bad science
Models Gone Wild: The Ionosphere Triggers Earthquakes?
It is certainly an imaginative (and that is being generous) attempt to unify atmospheric electricity and seismology, but the central weakness is that it moves rapidly from correlation to causation…
Another Temperature Bias: The Shrinking Stevenson Screen = Warming
By shrinking the Stevenson Screens in such a manner, they made yearly temperatures warmer by 0.54C.
Turning “What If” into “How Many”: The Rhetorical Alchemy of Climate Modeling
Deep in the paper, uncertainty is emphasized, limitations are acknowledged, and projections are framed as exploratory. In the abstract, figures, and conclusions, those same exploratory outputs are converted into quantified…
The Brain Microplastics Claim and the Collapse of Scientific Restraint
…the episode will stand as another example of how easily scientific restraint is abandoned when a frightening story is available for the telling.
Eye-rolling climate science from China
From the “central committee told me to pay lip-service to China’s net-zero pathway” department …
Screw Your Comfort: How Nature Became a Nagging Preacher
The tragedy is not that Nature publishes climate papers. It is that it no longer seems capable of publishing skepticism — not denial, but skepticism in its proper sense: disciplined…
Confirmation Bias Replaces Science: How a Climate Scientist Turned 23 Zettajoules into Twitter Fiction
Its GHGs wot dun it….this is where physics quietly left the room, and narrative building took its place.
Oh Noes! Climate Change is Messing with the Nitrogen Cycle
Apparently, doom is just around the corner, thanks to climate change messing with the nitrogen cycle.
Studying Skeptics Through a Keyhole: Why Climate Communication Research Can’t See What It Refuses to Understand
They may quote skeptics endlessly. They may code them meticulously. They may analyze their “affective economies” until the funding runs out. They will still have no idea why climate skepticism…
Science Without Skepticism Is Just Politics in a Lab Coat
A society that values both knowledge and liberty must resist this convergence of expertise and power. Scientists play a vital role in informing public debate. They do not acquire special…
Expect Soon Another PIK Paper Claiming Warming Leads To Cold Snaps Over Europe
So, you see warming also leads to unusual cold and harsh winter events across Europe
When Everything Is a Heat Wave and Every Change Is Climate
In the end, the paper offers a compelling story, but not a disciplined causal argument. A loosely defined marine heat wave is paired with a loosely defined ecological baseline, and…
New Climate Guilt Trip: Don’t Enjoy Food During the Holidays
“Real Science” by somebody without a clue.
UK Office of Budget Responsibility’s Latest Climate Fear Mongering Claims Based on Junk Findings From Retracted Nature Paper
The Nature retraction has been long (too long!) in coming since it has been obvious for some time that the paper was riddled with fatal flaws. The authors had admitted that the…
Climate Doomsday Prophecy Peddled By Academia Retracted In Disgrace
A widely-referenced 2024 study that predicted massive global economic damages due to climate change has now been retracted, The New York Times (NYT) reported on Wednesday.
When Models Masquerade as Oceans: The Latest Adventure in Simulated Stirring
This is the circular fortress of modern climate science: models validate models, statistical significance is computed on synthetic data, and uncertainty is waved away with phrases like “robustness” and “consistency.”
The Zika Scare That Turned Out to Be a False Positive Debacle – and the ‘Congenital Zika Syndrome’ Backup Lie That’s Replaced It
The human cost of this prolonged fiction is measured not in disability-adjusted life years of uncertain provenance, but in the children never conceived, the young families who postponed dreams, and…
Rebuttal: When “Coastal Climate Retreat” is just a Narrative – Why Nightlights Don’t Tell the Whole Coastal Story
The study itself if paywalled at Nature Communications, and I’m not going to throw good money at bad science. Fortunately, the press release itself provides enough clues to see the…
Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out Bogus Science
“We can tweak regulations and make investigators more rigorous, but this is fundamentally an ethical issue,” said Mark Barnes, a lawyer and prominent expert on misconduct investigations. “Institutions need to…
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