When I first read the story, and then the study at BAMS, I thought surely this must be an elaborate April Fools joke. Sadly, no.
Category: Bad science
How Climate Reductionism is Itself Causing Bad Science . . .
Science? Peer review? Journalists? WYD?
Restoring trust in government by using the IQA
Dr. Fauci, would have been required to inform the public that his daily statements were mere opinions.
PM2.5: Mass Killer or Mass Fraud?
The bottom line is that the claim that PM2.5 causes death is the most demonstrable science fraud of our time.
CEEMD vs Joe Fourier
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach In one of my late-night somnambulistic ramblings through the climate literature, I came across a 2021 study entitled “Evidence of solar 11-year cycle from Sea…
Scientists Debunk Alarmist Claim That Vertebrates Declined 69% Since 1970
Two independent groups of scientists have destroyed the always improbable claim that vertebrates across the planet have declined by 69% since 1970.
More Wackiness: Flashback 2020: ‘Climate change could be responsible’ for ‘autoimmune diseases & autism’ claims Rutgers U. researcher’s new study
The changes in the environment and biodiversity brought on by climate change could be responsible for increases in allergies, autoimmune diseases and autism,
February Fantasy Redux
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach This is an extension of my previous post entitled “February Fantasy Versus Reality“. Please read that to get the basic ideas. To recap, a study…
February Fantasy Versus Reality
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Yesterday, Eric Worrall posted an interesting article entitled “Forbes: Global Warming is Causing Colder Februaries“. The title says it all. The Forbes article states: Thanks…
Serially Wrong Paul Ehrlich Is Wrong, Again. We Are Not on The Brink of a 6th Mass Extinction Event
Guest Opinion by Chris Talgo On January 1, CBS News’ “60 Minutes” rang in the new year by airing a segment in which several scientists, including Dr. Paul Ehrlich, predicted that we…
P.T. Barnum Science: startup ‘Make Sunsets’ is “releasing particles into the atmosphere” to cool the planet
From MIT Technology Review and the EPA’s “We only regulate peasants and industry” department comes this hot mess of climate ego coupled with P.T Barnum style bad science. A startup…
Academics Pursue Project to ‘Decolonize Physics’
Physics is commonly regarded as the “most objective” and the “hardest” science [2], it fundamentally defines scientific key concepts such as energy, matter, force, light, space and time, for all…
Climate Fear Mongering Bad Analyses Cause Bad Remedies
The media amplifies our fears by promoting unvetted scientific studies that argue climate change is linked to 5 million deaths a year.
Peer Reviewed Science Journal Report: ‘Electric Utility Industry’s Role in Promoting Climate Denial, Doubt, And Delay
If I had been permitted to fact-check review this paper, I would have barred it for publication because it contains a minimum of six major errors
Why “Zombie Ice” and other claims of Greenland ice melt raising sea levels are just modeled hokum
From the check your Chinese soot before you check your CO2 driven climate model department. One of the dumbest climate claims this week is “Zombie Ice” from the ever alarmed…
Friday Funny – Clownfish Climate Science
Star marine ecologist committed misconduct, university says Finding against Danielle Dixson vindicates whistleblowers who questioned high-profile work on ocean acidification [due to rising atmospheric CO₂ levels] A major controversy in…
Star Marine Ecologist Committed Misconduct, University Says
Finding against Danielle Dixson vindicates whistleblowers who questioned high-profile work on ocean acidification
Roaring And Screaming
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Among blue-water sailors like myself, the area of the ocean from 40° South to 50° South is called the “Roaring Forties” because of the strength…
Proxy Rates of Sea Level Rise
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach My Twitter friend Wei Zhang @WeiZhangAtmos pointed me to an open-access study in Nature magazine entitled “Timing of emergence of modern rates of sea-level rise…
The Decline Effect – Part 2: How Does This Happen?
What exactly is the decline effect? Is it the fact that certain scientifically discovered effects decline over time the more they are studied and researched? Almost, but not really.
The Decline Effect – Part 1: Ocean Acidification
When all papers authored or coauthored by at least one of the lead investigators of those early studies were removed from the dataset (n = 41 studies, 45%), the decline…
Sad, @wapo Does Anything for a Headline – ‘Climate change is altering the smell of snow’
We’ve seen all sorts of media claims about climate change. Some are doomsday scenarios, others claim your favorite holiday food will be threatened, while others try to link nearly every weather event to…
Role of Journals and their Editors in Preserving False Research Findings
The business model of many journals promotes incentives for the author and publisher to work against sound science and interest of the public. Our position is that it is time…