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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 10/22/2011 : 14:57:13
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Reading over at TPM, they have a story up about how a Berkely researcher who for awhile has been a champion of the anti-Climate Change crowd because of his public skepticism. Fortunately, he's an honest scientist, and after conducting his own research, he has come to the other side.
Not unexpectedly, those who used to side with him are now disowning him. One rich example: Blogger Anthony Watts — a meteorologist and blogger who doubts greenhouse gases contribute to warming — was excited about Muller’s group’s work and in March boasted 'I’m prepared to accept whatever result they produce, even if it proves my premise wrong.'
On Thursday he appended an asterisk to that contention — he can’t accept the group’s conclusions because they haven’t been peer reviewed.
'Since the paper has not completed peer review yet, it would be inappropriate for me to publicly comment on the conclusions, especially in light of a basic procedural error that has been discovered in the methodology that will likely require a rework of the data and calculations, and thus the conclusions may also change.' |
I'm willing to wager that no matter how much peer review this work undergoes, he's going to stick to what he wants to believe.
[Edited to fix link - Dave W.]
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Climate Change Denier Defection
