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>If this were important, surely some scientist would have found holes in the theories no? That's a dangerous way to think. Isn't data fraud, particularly when
by fromthestart 8y ago
>If this were important, surely some scientist would have found holes in the theories no?
That's a dangerous way to think. Isn't data fraud, particularly when in line with an alleged agenda, something that should be vexing? You don't think it's possible that the same shunning that occurs in non academic settings towards deniers might occur in the sciences? In which case perhaps scientists aren't willing to risk careers and funding to go against the grain, if they are even concious of any bias. I imagine most young people are entering into this field now treating agw as confirmed fact.
And if you combine that with the all of the ways in which the scientific institution is currently broken (p value abuse/misuse, publish or perish, reproducibility crisis), it's very possible for an artificial, or massaged, narrative to come to dominate discourse even if it isn't quite true...
- graeme 8y agoI was being somewhat facetious. There does not appear to have been data fraud. OP was referring to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email... The only people I've seen who are worried about it are either propagandists or autodidacts. Not using the term propagandiat loosely. Referring to people at industry funded think tanks. But others who thrive on being "contrarian" and self educated always seem to reference this "fraud" even though there seems to be nothing to it. Added some quotes to my original post to clarify.