José Duarte, PhD

Category: science

  • Significance

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    I was struck by this quote from a Forbes piece on the secondhand smoke research. “there’s no such thing as borderline statistical significance. It’s either significant or it’s not.” It’s attributed to a journalist named Christopher Snowdon (I don’t know who that is.) It’s false, and I think it’s important for us to convey a…

  • Comment on Verheggen et al.; climate consensus research

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    Here’s my recent Comment on Verheggen et al. in Environmental Science & Technology.  Their core argument in their Reply is that all the non-climate scientists who were invited to participate in this survey because of their climate-related papers – all the psychologists, sociologists, Marxists, economists, palladium experts, etc. – would deny having done any climate-related…

  • I was denied admission to a PhD program because of my perceived political views: reflections of a sellout; how diversity would strengthen social science (Updated)

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    Some of my mentors advised me to take down the post from July 22, 2014 about discrimination because it would hurt me in the job market – that hiring committees would discriminate against me (again) for my perceived political views, or would discriminate against me for documenting past discrimination. So I took it down last week.…

  • How one paleo-participant can change the outcome of a study

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    Lewandowsky, Gignac, and Oberauer (2013) authored “The Role of Conspiracist Ideation and Worldviews in Predicting Rejection of Science” in PLOS ONE. (Paper here.) This study has many of the same features as their Psychological Science scam. In that study, they falsely linked belief in the moon-landing hoax to climate skepticism when in fact only three participants…

  • New Yorker article

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    The New Yorker has a nice article about our BBS paper on the lack of intellectual diversity in social psychology. I cringe a bit at the title: Is Social Psychology Biased Against Republicans? This was never about political parties, and the lack of diversity goes much deeper than even political philosophy (conservative, liberal, libertarian — that…

  • Lewis and Curry

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    This is interesting. Lewis and Curry estimate equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) at 1.64°C. That’s remarkably low. If it turns out to be true – and it seems like we won’t know the true value for ECS for another decade or longer – then AGW would have been largely overstated. The estimates constantly change, which is…

  • No results

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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…