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The second paragraph of the quotation begins: 'When his research was eventually published in 2008, well after the IPCC report, it concluded the opposite:' So h
by triplesec 10y ago
The second paragraph of the quotation begins: 'When his research was eventually published in 2008, well after the IPCC report, it concluded the opposite:'
So he does claim that these are opposites. That is my problem with his argument as presented.
- inimino 10y ago"There is statistically strong evidence of X" and "there isn't" are opposites. I think you're perhaps reading it over-pedantically.
- WillPostForFood 10y agoOK, I see where you are coming from, and it is a fair interpretation. I just don't read opposite as equal to false. I read it the opposite of a proven claim is an unproven claim, not a false claim. But I think this is a distraction - even if he meant it as proven false, and fell into fallacious thinking, he should simply be corrected, not vilified, not investigated by the government, and not hounded out of a job by a billionaire activist.
- triplesec 10y agoThat I agree with, if true. On a broader level OTOH, having now read the articles debunking his 538 writing, it seems this is not a reliable witness. See other links in this and other subthreads here
- coldtea 10y ago>So he does claim that these are opposites. Opposites as "does not prove" (vs proves). Not opposites as in "disproves".