José Duarte, PhD

Tag: integrity

  • Nimble skepticism (Updated)

    —

    in ,

    The Karl et al. study highlights something I’ve been thinking about lately. I don’t know if the Karl paper is important, good, or bad. It claims to debunk the slowdown in surface warming. Other papers will claim the opposite. This won’t be the end of it, but imagine that it was – imagine that we…

  • All sides

    —

    in

    A few days ago on Twitter I said that climate skeptics needed to distance themselves from the conspiracy theorists and harassers. This upset a dozen or so climate skeptics and led to a flurry of rebukes that I had trouble following due to their sheer volume and the constraints of a 140-character medium. I can’t coherently…

  • Don’t be a skeptic / the noun problem

    —

    in

    I don’t think you should be a skeptic. Not on the severity of human-caused warming, the safety of GMOs, or a few other things. Consider: 1. I’m a skeptic. — or — 2. I’m skeptical of the predictive power of climate science at this point. When you choose the noun, you’ve chosen membership in a…

  • Reality is what it is

    —

    in ,

    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…