Guest post by David Middleton OK… My “burned at the stake” comment was mostly sarcastic hyperbole… But the author of this CSM article really deserves a heaping dose of sarcastic…
Category: Consensus
American Thoracic Society beclowns itself – abandons data for consensus opinion on 'climate related illness'
From the AMERICAN THORACIC SOCIETY and the “consensus is the same as data” department comes this eyeroller of a claim that seems to confuse climate, real air pollution, and weather. It…
How 'consensus science' blew the Solar Cycle 24 prediction, which turned out to be the lowest in 100 years
A few years ago, the best solar models predicted that Solar Cycle 24 would be larger than Solar Cycle 23. Here is a plot from NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center…
The Perils of Consensus
Victor Grauer writes: The film, “The Big Short,” and the book, “No One Would Listen,” offer instructive object lessons on the dangers of blindly accepting a consensus, no matter how…
Ooops! Not all 31 scientific societies actually signed the AAAS ‘consensus’ letter
Recursive Lies and “Scientific Consensus” Letters Guest opinion by Leo Goldstein The ”Consensus” Letter on Climate Change (06/28/2016), allegedly signed by leaders of 31 scientific organizations and published on the…
Attempt by AAAS at climate consensus underscores the fact the 'science is not a democracy'
From the “so what?” department and the American Association for the Advancement of Science via Eurekalert: Thirty-one top scientific societies speak with one voice on global climate change In a…
Leaked email shows website Climate Feedback plans a propaganda push under guise of #StandWithScience
Plans to generate a crowd-funding campaign to help silence dissent on news articles. I’ve received this from two independent sources, which is said to be from a mailing list being…
A case study bearing on the nature of “consensus” in normal science and in the AGW controversy
Guest essay by Rick Wallace A useful method for gaining an initial understanding of complex social-psychological phenomena is to collect and compare case studies. Despite the humble character of such…
Problems With Analyzing Governed Systems
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been ruminating on the continuing misunderstanding of my position that a governor is fundamentally different from simple feedback. People say things like “A governor…
Global Warming and the Age of the Earth: a Lesson on the Nature of Scientific Knowledge
In the wake of Karl et al. 2015, which revises data to match a consensus, we can all take a lesson from how scientific consensus has operated in the past…
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…
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…
'Years of Living Dangerously': Pastor Rick Joyner Models Feynman's Ideal Scientist!
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University Richard Feynman idealized the good scientist as someone who displays “a kind of scientific integrity,…
IPCC Admits The Scientific Consensus Was Wrong in a Stunning Reversal on Biofuels
It just goes to show you that sometimes, consensus in science amounts to a “whole lot of nothing” as this story from Robert Mendick in The Sunday Telegraph tells us.…
If 99 Doctors Said…
We’ve seen the “If 99 doctors said…” argument, or facsimiles, used often by global warming enthusiasts in recent months. George Clooney used it when interviewed at the Britannia Awards. (See…
Sunspots and Sea Level
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I came across a curious graph and claim today in a peer-reviewed scientific paper. Here’s the graph relating sunspots and the change in sea level:…
The Collapsing 'Consensus'
Guest essay by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Environmental Research Letters ought to have known better than to publish the latest anti-scientific propaganda paper by John Cook of the dubiously-named Skeptical…
Fuzzy math: In a new soon to be published paper, John Cook claims 'consensus' on 32.6% of scientific papers that endorse AGW
You have to wonder how somebody can write (let alone read) the claims made here in the press release by Cook with a straight face. It gives a window into…
The Paradox of Consensus – a novel argument on climate change
Theories that can be easily tested should have a high degree of consensus among researchers. Those involving chaotic and less testable questions – climate change or economic growth, physiology or…
The mental effect of the '97% consensus' myth spans politics
But, we all know that 97% consensus talking point is simply based on a handful of actual climate responding to a broad questionnaire combined with some statistical spin to give…
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