peer-review
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A group of Skeptics once managed to take over an editorship at a peer-reviewed journal and publish articles hostile to mainstream climate science. With the help of politicians and large funding sources, the hostilities have continued to this day. Read more
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Spencer and Braswell published an article in Remote Sensing that claimed that carbon dioxide was not the cause of global warming, in opposition to accepted climate science. The paper was found to have significant errors, which were compounded by James Taylor at Forbes magazine when he sensationalized the article and presented his opinion of it… Read more
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Scientific journals have established a peer review process to ensure that published papers are free of errors in reasoning and methodology. However, it is possible to game the system to get erroneous information published. This is a three part series about aimed at exposing the errors and closing the loopholes. Read more
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Complaints about “scientific secrecy” are disingenuous: There is very little secrecy in science. Scientific papers are presented and openly debated at meetings where anyone can attend. The peer reviewed papers include the data, the results, and the reasoning and are available at public libraries and many are now online. Also: Researchers are required to keep… Read more
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This article contains short comments on issues related to climate science such as peer review, ocean acidification … Read more
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The public has the right to information about publicly funded research through the FOIA. Some details of the peer review process are held as confidential to protect the integrity of the process. Read more
