I focus on scientific validity and the effects of ideological bias in media and academic research
This is my historic blog, with classic posts on scientific fraud and invalidity in climate consensus research and social psychology, along with some classics on applied epistemology and logical fallacies.
My current work is at Substack here.
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Cooking stove use, housing associations, white males, and the 97%
The Cook et al. (2013) 97% paper included a bunch of psychology studies, marketing papers, and surveys of the general public as scientific endorsement of anthropogenic climate change. Let’s walk through that sentence again. The Cook et al 97% paper included a bunch of psychology studies, marketing papers, and surveys of the general public as scientific…
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The “Hottest year on record” fallacy
2014 was the hottest year on record by some hundredths of a degree. It was not significantly hotter than 2005 or 2010. See the Berkeley BEST lab for details. Global surface warming paused or slowed down after 1998 – there is some dispute about whether to call it a pause or a slowdown. We’ll treat…
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The climate science consensus is 78 – 84 percent (Updated)
I think I’ve been negligent in not making the actual climate science consensus known to people. In one of my projects it occurred to me that no one has made the information readily available, at least not to my knowledge. I’ll save the details for the journal article, but I think a quick snapshot of…