{"id":3001,"date":"2010-03-05T09:43:24","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:51:39","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:51:39","slug":"qotd-rescuing-science-from-the-agw-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/03\/05\/qotd-rescuing-science-from-the-agw-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Rescuing science from the AGW disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>. . . this news story is a warning to all scientists: if you don\u2019t want creationists to get traction, you can\u2019t just treat this as someone else\u2019s problem. You have to clean house. You have tolerated liars and rascals like Phil Jones and Rajendra Pachauri in your midst too long; you need to throw them out.<\/p>\n<p>A diplomatic way for any random professional society to do this would be to demand that all climate science must be held to the strictest standards of methodological scrutiny. All data, including primary un-\u201dcorrected\u201d datasets, must be available for auditing by third parties. All modeling code must be published. The assumptions made in data reduction and smoothing must be an explicitly documented part of the work product.<\/p>\n<p>These requirements would kill off AGW alarmism as surely as a bullet through the head. But its credibility is already collapsing; the rising issue, now, is to prevent collateral damage from the scientific community\u2019s failure to insist on them sooner. Every day you delay will strengthen the creationists and the flat-earthers and all the other monsters begotten from the sleep of reason.<\/p>\n<p>Eric S. Raymond, <a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1776\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lies and consequences&#8221;, <em>Armed and Dangerous<\/em><\/a>, 2010-03-04<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . this news story is a warning to all scientists: if you don\u2019t want creationists to get traction, you can\u2019t just treat this as someone else\u2019s problem. You have to clean house. You have tolerated liars and rascals like Phil Jones and Rajendra Pachauri in your midst too long; you need to throw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,41,16],"tags":[245,1235,194,240,39],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-quotations","category-science","tag-climatechange","tag-esr","tag-fraud","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Mp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}