‘Honey, I shrunk the consensus’ — Monckton takes action on Cooks paper

“Honey, I shrunk the consensus” — Monckton takes action on Cooks paper

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/09/monckton-honey-i-shrunk-the-consensus/

If you are fed up with dismal papers passing peer review and exploiting the good name of science, join us in protest. Christopher Monckton was not content to let John Cook and others get away with a paper where 0.3% becomes 97%, so  Monckton is formally asking the journal to retract it — suggesting it would be wise to protect the journal from any allegation of scientific misrepresentation. Here is his entertaining background on events, and below that, a very serious letter 273 scientists and citizens have already signed to jointly send to the Editor Daniel Kammen. If deceptive wording and hidden data make you angry, join in by commenting below or emailing. — Jo ————————————————–  Honey, I shrunk the consensus By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley Michael Crichton said: “If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.” Thales of Miletus, Abu Ali Ibn al Haytham, Newton, Einstein, Popper and Feynman thought much the same and said so. Science by head-count is mere politics. Doran and Zimmerman (2009) and Anderegg et al. (2010) each concluded that 97% of a few dozen carefully-filtered climate scientists held Man guilty of some of the 0.7 Cº […]Rating: 10.0/10 (4 votes cast)

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