José Duarte, PhD

Category: science

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…