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Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal
sciencehabit writes "A European publisher today terminated a journal edited by climate change skeptics. The journal, Pattern Recognition in Physics, was started less than a year ago. Problems cropped up soon afterward. In July, Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, noted 'serious concerns' with Pattern Recognition in Physics. As he wrote on his blog about open-access publishing, Beall found self-plagiarism in the first paper published by the journal. 'In addition,' says another critic, 'the editors selected the referees on a nepotistic basis, which we regard as malpractice in scientific publishing.'"
http://retractionwatch.com/2014/01/17/climate-skeptic-journal-shuttered-following-malpractice-in-nepotistic-reviewer-selections/
Science is easy when you have your mind made up for you by your employer, and only look for the data your employer wants.
Remember, get ALL your science data from politicians. They'd never ever lie. Nor would people who have a monetary interest in disproving something
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
Galileo was a dick to the pope. He put a character with the name "Idiotocrotis" or something like that who used the popes arguments in his book. He actually was friends with the pope previously. No one gave Kepler any problems and he was around at the same time.
Interesting blogs on the history of that:
http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-great-ptolemaic-smackdown.html#more
...and David Irving, and Peter Duesberg, and L. Ron Hubbard... Truly they will all be proven right!
Don't blame me, I voted for Baltar.
So no, the scientific method works, and has worked for centuries, and will continue to work as long as scientists are rewarded based on the scientific method
Very true. However climate science isn't doing this, they are "hiding the decline" and fudging numbers and silencing critics. Oh and beating other scientists who disagree with them to a pulp with their bare fists. Talking about doing that, at any rate.
Note to anyone more right-wing than center:
The instant you start up any productive project, you will start getting advice and other "help" from people who actually totally disagree with you.
Hint -- it's all toxic. We call this "concern trolling."
If you let them in, they will quietly find some unaccountable way to sabotage you, and then leave. Their leftist buddies will cover up for them. This is one of the many reasons we say liberalism is a mental health disorder; it's pathological.
Just keep in mind the typical liberal MO...
http://nypost.com/2014/01/11/why-bridgegate-made-headlines-but-obamas-irs-scandal-didnt/
Futurist Traditionalism