As long as we are talking about peer review, let us also discuss dispassionate skepticism, the other virtue (if scientists can be said to have any as a group) of scientists. It is the decoupling of dispassionate from skepticism that makes public discussions about climate science and environmental issues in general so uninformative. One might say that skepticism alone is a nasty, but insufficient condition for policy.
I would give my right arm to see some honest skepticism in the climate debate.
ReplyDeleteOr to be honest I like my right arm and would only be willing to give a rather large sum of quatloos to the cause of honest skepticism...