José Duarte, PhD

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  • More scams

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    Lewandowsky, S., Oberauer, K., & Gignac, G. E. (2013), titled their paper thusly: NASA faked the moon landing—therefore, (climate) science is a hoax: an anatomy of the motivated rejection of science. And in their abstract they say: “Endorsement of free markets also predicted the rejection of other established scientific findings, such as the facts that HIV…

  • The greatest line ever

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    (Scene: A dead woman lies on top of a car, having fallen or jumped from a tall building. She’s dressed in an angel costume. Two detectives arrive at the scene.) Charlie Crews: It’s a dead angel. Dani Reese: It’s a dead woman with a pair of fake wings. Charlie: How do you know? Dani: Well,…

  • Lewandowsky fraud

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    What a summer. I’ve also called for the retraction of the following paper: Lewandowsky, Stephan, Klaus Oberauer, and Gilles E. Gignac. 2013. “NASA Faked the Moon Landing—Therefore, (Climate) Science Is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science.” Psychological Science 24 (5): 622–33. (Link) The title draws a link between belief in the…

  • Ignore climate consensus studies based on random people rating journal article abstracts.

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    UPDATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2014: (This post was my initial take. For a better and more up-to-date report, go here. For follow-up, go here.) The paper includes a bunch of psychology studies and public surveys as evidence of scientific endorsement of anthropogenic climate change, even a survey of cooking stove use. This vacates the paper. Lots…

  • What’s going on with Paul Krugman?

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    Paul’s a good economist, especially in his textbook. His New Trade Theory was solid work, and he’s extremely smart, but I’m stumped by this. Krugman criticizes Roger Pielke, Jr. in this post. He attributes an argument to Pielke that Pielke never made, and never came close to making. He says that Pielke argues that a…

  • But climate scientist so-and-so says it’s not a big deal…

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    Do you have a piece of paper handy? If so, grab a beer and something to write with. 1. Write down all the names of climate scientists that you can remember — anyone you’ve read about or seen. If you’re a super cool person, you’ll do this before you scroll down to the next step.…