"klonq" wrote in message
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> What a well thought out article, its about time somebody said it.
>
> I think Al Gore said it best - if we were to count the number of peer-
> reviewed scientific journals on the topic of climate change and
> compare it to the number of popular media articles on the same topic
"Peer Review", A Synopsis
Alexander Cockburn
One way in which critics are silenced is through the accusation that
they are ignoring 'peer-reviewed science'. Yet oftentimes, peer review
is a nonsense. As anyone who has ever put his nose inside a university
will know, peer review is usually a mode of excluding the unexpected,
the unpredictable and the unrespectable, and forming a mutually
back-scratching circle. The history of peer review and how it developed
is not a pretty sight. Through the process of peer review, of certain
papers being nodded through by experts and other papers being given a
red cross, the controllers of the major scientific journals can include
what they like and exclude what they don't like. Peer review is
frequently a way of controlling debate, even curtailing it. Many people
who fall back on peer-reviewed science seem afraid to have out the
intellectual argument.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/reviewofbooks_article/
Regards
Bonzo
The Fourth Report of the IPCC might just as well decree the
suppression of all climatology textbooks, and replace them in our
schools with press communiqués. ... Day after day, the same mantra -
that 'the Earth is warming up' - is churned out in all its forms. As
'the
ice melts' and 'sea level rises' the Apocalypse looms ever nearer!
Without realizing it, or perhaps without wishing to, the average
citizen in bamboozled, lobotomized, and lulled into mindless acceptance.
... Non-believers in the greenhouse scenario are in the
position of those long ago who doubted the existence of God ...
Marcel Leroux
It should be abundantly clear by now that the AGW hypothesis is
contradicted by the facts/measurements/observations and should
therefore be abandoned and be substituted by a hypothesis which
better matches the facts.
- Hans Labohm
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