Re: [Phys-l] Prof. Hal Lewis resigns from APS

[marx@phy.ilstu.edu]

Daniel,

You are not correct in your assessment.  The APS showed no interest in examining the science in this 
matter.  Their decision was/is solely based on politics, as were the so-called investigations into 
ClimateGate.  Most, unbiased scientists that take the time to examine all of the documents and the 
peer-reviewed scientific literature (not the IPCC reports) will arrive at the same conclusion as Professor 
Lewis.  The problem is that most scientists have difficulty imagining that the so-called climate experts 
have engaged in poor quality scientific work, even to the point of fabricating data.  There is an effort 
underway to significantly alter the land-based measurements and data sets to get the desired results.  
None of this is to deny that climate change is an ongoiong process, but rather a demand that higher 
standards for data collection and analysis be used and that the entire process be transparent.  We 
have a huge number of people engaged in quasi-scientific work to promote a political agenda, rather 
than being engaged in truth-seeking.




On 11 Oct 2010 at 9:15, Price Daniel S. wrote:

> The term "pseudoscientific" having its usual meaning:  "a scientific conclusion that one happens to dislike".
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> Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, and co-founder and former Chairman of JASON, submitted his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan, Jr., President of the American Physical Society (posted at http://thegwpf.org/ipcc-news/1670-hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society.html).
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> His reason?   Excerpted from his letter:
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> "It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford's book organizes the facts very well.) I don't believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.
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> "So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it.
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> "....I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation."
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> In addition to the bull-in-the-china-shop issue of GW/CC, physics educators may be asked by their students the question of how a scientist deals publicly with a scientific position he holds when he knows it will receive strong (political) opposition.
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> As I recall, Galileo Galilei did have a problem with the authorities when he adamantly took a scientific stand.  Of course, Nicolas Copernicus was on his deathbed when he finally had his heliocentric theory published.  And Ole Roemer's claim of the finite speed of light was never widely accepted until well after his death.
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> Rick Strickert
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