Scientific integrity versus ideologically-fueled research

Posted: May 26, 2015 by tallbloke in solar system dynamics

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Judy Curry grasps the nettle of the ideological bias that has skewed climate science.

Climate Etc.

by Judith Curry

The main intellectual fault in all these cases is failing to be responsive to genuine empirical concerns, because doing so would make one’s political point weaker or undermine a cherished ideological perspective. – Heather Douglas

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  1. oldbrew says:
    May 26, 2015 at 10:10 am

    ‘fabrication of data to further one’s scientific career’ – like this…??
    https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/cooling-the-past-in-the-faroes/

    Bankrupting Physics: http://www.thehiggsfake.com/bankruptingphysics.html
    “Unzicker clearly thinks that the majority of physics is mankind’s greatest achievement: but uniquely for a physicist, he has the honesty and integrity to admit that a sizeable portion of recent physics is either highly dodgy or complete nonsense.”

  2. M Simon says:
    May 26, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    Link here to the New York Times grasping the same issue re: American EPA.

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-epa-flooded-the-zone-on-water-rule/article/2565018

  3. Paul Vaughan says:
    May 26, 2015 at 4:58 pm

    Unfortunately JC’s unable to recognize the implications of observed sun-climate axial structure — and thus maintains beliefs about climate chaos that are monstrously at odds with empirical records …so unfortunately I have to call comical hypocrisy …and of course its natural to begin to suspect calculated deception when ignorance of something as simple as 1+1=2 persists for so long. The unwavering ignorance is more than a little creepy.

  4. tallbloke says:
    May 26, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    Paul V: I don’t doubt Judy Curry’s integrity. Sh is simply unwilling to enter speculative realms concerning disciplines in which she has no expertise. Stadium Wave tells us she recognises cycles. She is just unwilling to commit to any particular theory of their origin.

    I still think she and Marcia have LOD at the wrong end of the wave though.

  5. M Simon says:
    May 27, 2015 at 12:16 am

    LOD?

  6. Will Janoschka says:
    May 27, 2015 at 1:23 am

    tallbloke says: May 26, 2015 at 10:46 pm

    “Paul V: I don’t doubt Judy Curry’s integrity.”

    Whohe, A exact response of a politician desperately trying to piss off no one! 🙂

    “She is simply unwilling to enter speculative realms concerning disciplines in which she has no expertise. Stadium Wave tells us she recognizes cycles. She is just unwilling to commit to any particular theory of their origin.”

    Very nice and thoughtful!

    “I still think she and Marcia have LOD at the wrong end of the wave though..”

    Roger,
    No waves, only “time” and its complex conjugate, ‘minus cycles per “time interval”‘!
    Ask for any more of my speculation! My head hurts!

  7. dai davies says:
    May 27, 2015 at 2:20 am

    Thanks for the Unzicker link oldbrew.

    As for Curry, I suppose she’s trying in difficult circumstances. Haven’t been to her site since she dropped the ‘old white male’ PC trifecta.

  8. tallbloke says:
    May 27, 2015 at 6:07 am

    Will J: Whohe, A exact response of a politician desperately trying to piss off no one!

    Will, I’ve met Judy Curry twice, spending some hours in both formal and informal discussion with her. That was long enough to be able to offer an informed judgement.

    M Simon: LOD = Length of Day. The rate the Earth spins at varies, due to various factors.

  9. Paul Vaughan says:
    May 29, 2015 at 8:48 am

    tallbloke (May 26, 2015 at 10:46 pm) wrote:
    “I don’t doubt Judy Curry’s integrity. Sh is simply unwilling to enter speculative realms […]”

    Chaotically enough, the monstrously uncertain can’t tell black-&-white proof from grey speculation.