Steve McIntyre responds to arm waving and accusations from Gavin and the Real Climate CRU
[mod: Apologies to Steve for miss-spelling his name. Pointed out by an Ian, thank you. –co-mod]
Several readers have asked me to respond to recent comments about me at Real Climate: briefly, Osborn has made one misrepresentation after another and made statements with seemingly complete indifference as to whether he has any basis for making the claims.
In respect to Schmidt’s whinge, as Lucia sagely observed a couple of years ago in connection with Schmidt’s defence of upside-down Tiljander, one cannot assume that people actually asked the questions that Schmidt says they asked or that his answers are adequate because he says so:
I might suggest that you are assuming that people asked the questions Gavin says they asked, and that Gavin’s answer to their questions is adequate because Gavin tells us his answer is adequate.
Schmidt and Osborn’s most recent comments were on July 2, the last day that comments were open on the thread, otherwise I would have attempted to respond at Real…
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Tallbloke:
Minor typo – you might want to check the spelling of Steve McIntyre’s name…
I’m going to say something that I’ll probably regret later, but here goes anyway.
Surely this whole argument is one of how academia should proceed in/within an acceptable format for the process of delivering new and ground-breaking theory?
Best regards, Ray.