José Duarte, PhD

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    A colleague perused the the Cook rater forums and sent me this example: “I got one last night, though, that I thought was funny – I rated it as “Explicit >50%”, because it *was* attributing all the warming to human GHG emissions.  It just claimed there wouldn’t *be* much warming, asserting that the IPCC had…

  • Classifying words during sleep

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    This amazing study reminds me of Flowers for Algernon: “…the researchers recorded the EEG of human participants while they were awake and instructed to classify spoken words as either animals or objects by pressing a button, using the right hand for animals and the left hand for objects. The procedure allowed Kouider and his colleagues…

  • The art of evasion

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    Here’s an update on the Cook 97% scam. They apparently have no answers. Cook and some of his crew had a chat event at Reddit. Last I checked, they never addressed any substantive issues in the report, even though various people asked them about it. They don’t argue against the fraud reports, the validity issues,…

  • Harms

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    Hi all. I’m working on a side project, and I ask for your help. Have you been harmed by others’ judgments or perceptions of you as a climate skeptic? Please send me your stories. Climate skeptic is broad and vague, but what matters here are others’ perceptions of you as questioning human-caused warming, or questioning…

  • Medical records hacked

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    4.5 million hospital records were hacked, apparently by a notorious Chinese hacking group. I’ve been concerned about the security of medical records for years – the issue has been obscured by the huge business breaches like Target, Nieman Marcus, and now Home Depot (Russian hacking teams, usually based in Odessa, Ukraine.) There’s a basic structural…

  • Cooking stove use, housing associations, white males, and the 97%

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    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…

  • Eyes in space

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    One of my major interests outside of social science is space-based observatories and exoplanet detection. I’ve long thought that we need to figure out a way to manufacture monolithic telescope mirrors in space, and I’ve thought of a couple of different ways to do that. But I did not think of this: “Under his plan,…

  • Kenny and The Castle

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    The recent salience of Australia obligates to me apprise you of two of the greatest movies ever made in the Queen’s: The Castle and Kenny. Magnificent works, just a beautiful sense of life.

  • Reality is what it is

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    Quick but important point of clarification… Someone sent me this paper as a presumed example of bias or invalid research: Eidelman, Scott, Christian S. Crandall, Jeffrey A. Goodman, and John C. Blanchar. 2012. “Low-Effort Thought Promotes Political Conservatism.” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 38 (6): 808–20. (Link) I don’t see anything wrong with it. I…

  • How data is often overrated

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    This is something I wrote some time ago, and have quickly updated. Data is overrated. This is a terrible, terrible thing for a scientist to say. Well, except that it’s true, so it’s a good thing for a scientist to say. I don’t question, remotely, the central empirical premise of social science or any other…