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Re: [Phys-l] Scientists speaking outside their fields.Was...The Cause of Global Warming...



Has anyone googled?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Oreskes

My impression: Peiser has back pedalled.

bc, too lazy to check all the posts.


Brian Whatcott wrote:

At 09:04 AM 5/23/2007, John M., you wrote:


...
If it is true that, among the abstracts Oreskes examined, 34 of them
"reject or doubt" human activities as a cause, then I'd call that an
error too. Indeed, I'd call THAT an inexcusable error. I don't
know, however, whether or not that is the case and Peiser doesn't
make that clear either. He may not know. It would seem highly
unlikely, but it is at least conceivable that those abstracts were
entirely among the additions Peiser made to the study.

Now, if it turned out to be true that Oreskes willfully excluded
abstracts from her study that rejected or expressed doubt about
anthropogenic warming, I'd call that a serious breach of intellectual
integrity. I haven't heard any evidence, however, to suggest that
that is the case.


...


John Mallinckrodt

Professor of Physics, Cal Poly Pomona



I feel that Prof Oreskes might well have an interesting response to
the doubts that have been expressed in this thread.
Is there an accessible email address for her?



Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!

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