Guest post by Alec Rawls After finalizing a long post on John Cook’s crowd-sourced consensus-rating survey (to be titled “I take Cook’s survey so you don’t have to”), I submitted…
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Monday Mirthiness – John's cooked up Skeptical Science survey
When I was first contacted by Skeptical Science proprietor John Cook about his request to have WUWT host a survey, I asked him several questions because I had misgivings about…
John Cook's new survey – lots of questions, no answers
I and (according to Cook) 50 other blogs (with a supposed 50/50 skeptic to advocate split) have received this invitation: Hi Anthony As one of the more highly trafficked climate…
Stephan Lewandowsky 'flees' Australia in wake of investigations
People send me stuff. 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…
Second Lewandowsky conspiracy theory paper delinked from journal
I’ve been waiting to get some confirmation on this since yesterday , and now that I have it, I can state that the link to the second Lew paper Recursive fury:…
McIntyre's dissection of the Cook-Lewandowsky "Lying/deceiving/incompetence" complex
You don’t need a degree in psychology to figure this one out, you simply need to be an astute observer. Steve McIntyre writes: Last fall, Geoff Chambers and Barry Woods…
Some thoughts on the recent Lewandowsky-Cook conspiracy theory
Reversing Curie Guest post by Tom Fuller from The Lukewarmer’s Way The online journal Frontiers promises open access and peer review. They have recently published Stefan Lewandowsky’s paper ‘Recursive Fury: conspiracist ideation…
Stephan Lewandowsky and John Cook – making things up
Fabricated quotes and gross distortions are used to paint skeptics as conspiracy nuts. The question is, is it a conspiracy, or is it just incompetence? Guest post by Brandon Shollenberger…
A Conspiracy of One
Guest post by Brandon Shollenberger Words cannot describe the humor of Michael Mann’s latest post: As professional climate change deniers become increasingly irrelevant and desperate, so do their distraction and…
More shameless conspiracy theory from the 'Skeptical Science' smear quest team
You’ve all heard of a religious “grail quest“, I submit what we have here is an ongoing religious “smear quest”. The cartoonist (John Cook, purveyor of the laughably named “Skeptical…
Beyond bizarre: University of Graz music professor calls for skeptic death sentences
[Update, Parncutt has pulled his page, the webcite link still works, 1:00 am PDT 12/24/12 ~mod] UPDATE2: 9AM PST 1/24 The Parncutt page now gets a 404 “file not found”…
'Skeptical Science', Shouting, and Joe Romm's integrity – a test
Over at Climate Progress, the alarmist organ of the Center for American Progress, Joe Romm is fond of citing an offhand remark from this WUWT story as “proof” of my…
Skeptical Science gets Romm-Bombed
Reposted from Popular Technology with permission Skeptical Science: Too Inaccurate for Joe Romm In March of 2012, the climate alarmist website Skeptical Science had their forums “hacked” and the contents…
Skeptical Science conspiracy theorist John Cook runs another survey trying to prove that false "97% of climate scientists believe in global warming" meme
People send me stuff. Even though I’m supposed to be on break, I thought this worth a few minutes to post up. I have redacted the recipient address as well…
The Daily Lew – Issue 6 – drill baby, drill.
LewWorld has increased its spin and is now “drilling into noise“. The resulting increased spin and precession looks to be creating dangerous wobble on LewWorld. Meanwhile while Lew is drilling…
'…we need a conspiracy to save humanity'
I posted this on the Daily Lew Issue 5 as an update, but I decided it was so telling of the state of mind for the SkS crowd that it…
The Cook-Lewandowsky Social-Internet Link
UPDATE: For all you angry taunting types (Stoat aka William M. Connolley for example) that claim that this post represents a claim of conspiracy theory itself (hint: try to find…
Mike's Amazon Trick
Over at Bishop Hill, there’s an eye opening story by Shub Niggurath about the orchestration of book reviews for Michael Mann’s Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars using John Cook’s…
Stephan Lewandowsky’s slow motion Psychological Science train wreck
I’m a bit of a latecomer to this affair, as Lucia and Jo Nova took an early lead on pointing out the many problems with the survey methodology (or lack…
Dusting for Fingerprints in the Holocene
Guest Post by David Middleton Fingerprints are admissible evidence in criminal trials because of their uniqueness. The probability of two human beings having identical fingerprints is very low. Measurements of…
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