Friday, March 05, 2010

Not clear on the concept....

.....are many climate change scientists, who are responding to recent embarassing revelations about dirty tricks and poor research techniques done by their own colleagues by....

.....planning more dirty tricks against climate change theory skeptics, making the fray even more of a political battle. Now normally, "science" includes sharing methods, data, and results so that others can reproduce or refute them, not political dirty tricks. I would hence assume that their very threat of making it a bigger political battle is....

....a confession that there's not much scientific about climate change theory. Hopefully cooler heads prevail in the halls of academia before an entire branch of science lies discredited for a generation.

3 comments:

Pilgrim said...

I've been thinking about (the point of) your last sentence for a few weeks now. I've wondered: does every generation have a "global warming" scam? Does every generation of scientists build its tower to the heavens, only to have their language confused and their work abandoned? It seems so.

Bike Bubba said...

Every generation does, but this generation seems (IMO) to see it becoming far more of a political issue--for both climatology and, for that matter, biology/evolution.

Good point, though; caloric, luminiferous aether, phlebotomy, Haeckel diagrams, fixed point of reference.....

K-Rod said...

Remember cold fusion?

Imagine if no one demanded they followed through with the scientific method... "...includes sharing methods, data, and results so that others can reproduce or refute them,"