Category: ideological bias
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The art of evasion
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,…
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Harms
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…
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Cooking stove use, housing associations, white males, and the 97%
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…
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Ignore climate consensus studies based on random people rating journal article abstracts.
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…