tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post3584014329999489510..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: A Dummy's Guide to Strange Scholarship in the Wegman ReportEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-68283799450712202162010-10-21T22:06:49.420-04:002010-10-21T22:06:49.420-04:00David: yes, and anyone involved with WR bothered t...David: yes, and anyone involved with WR bothered to ask some of them, and listened, they might have produced a different report.<br />It is my belief that some entities at GMU are normal academic departments, some reasonably good [according to people I know who know people in several.] I have actually sent heads-ups to several people there.<br /><br />Other entities appear to act more like arms of the Koch brothers.<br /><br />It is unclear the extent to which the former act as facades for the latter, in fact with many people not even realizing that.<br /><br />This tactic is fairly common, such as in the Environmental Literacy Council, which mostly seemed reasonable, EXCEPT regarding climate. See <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/crescendo-climategate-cacophony" rel="nofollow">CCC</a>, section on ELC.<br /><br />This of course is quite similar to the WR itself, ots of reasonable citations as a facade for the 2 key messages.John Masheynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-31303909583950956482010-10-21T21:29:41.966-04:002010-10-21T21:29:41.966-04:00Just for the record, here is a quite decent paper ...Just for the record, here is a quite decent paper on an aspect on climatology from authors @ GMU:<br />ftp://www.iges.org/pub/delsole/dir_ipcc/dts_science_2010_main.pdfDavid B. Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02917182411282836875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-8652827309403191662010-10-18T13:11:07.860-04:002010-10-18T13:11:07.860-04:00Eli: you may be amused to note that some folks her...Eli: you may be amused to note that some folks here an there have happily selected only the last sentence from the ORI section you quoted, to prove that ORI would not care.<br /><br />Once again, Lewis Carroll to the rescue:<br /><br />"Beware the JabberwORI, my son!<br /> The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!"John Masheynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-77862568482543031252010-10-18T04:19:46.486-04:002010-10-18T04:19:46.486-04:00Posted today at the Richmond Times Despatch. It ha...Posted today at the Richmond Times Despatch. It hasn't appeared yet. Probably delayed by the numerous links. Essentially a quick post culled largely from the intro to JM's magnum opus to get in before the zombie armies have a go.<br /><br /><br />The Wegman report was not what it was purported to be:<br /><br />It was promoted to Congress by Representatives Joe Barton [$1,727,07 42% Coal, 58% Oil] and Ed Whitfield [$367,801 58% Coal, 42% Oil] as “independent, impartial, expert” work by a team of “eminent statisticians.” It was none of those.<br /><br />A Barton staffer provided much of the source material to the Wegman team.<br /><br />The report itself contains numerous cases of obvious bias, as do process, testimony and follow-on actions.<br /> <br />Of 91 pages, 35 are mostly plagiarized text, but often injected with errors, bias and changes of meaning.<br /> <br />Its Bibliography is mostly padding, 50% of the references uncited in the text. Many references are irrelevant or dubious. <br /><br />The team relied heavily on a long-obsolete sketch WHICH HAD BEEN CAREFULLY DISTORTED (see: A Dummy's Guide to Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report II ) and very likely on various uncredited sources.<br /><br />A lot of the commentators here need to read this: 'A Dummy's Guide to Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report' (for URL see below)<br /><br />References / acknowledgements:<br /><br />DeepClimate for discovering the evidence that strongly suggests plagiarism-plus. Where the meaning of the original unacknowledged text has been radically altered by what can only apparently be deliberate changes to the text.<br /><br />Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report : A Façade for the Climate Anti-Science PR Campaign - John R. Mashey<br />http://deepclimate.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/strange-scholarship-v1-02.pdf<br /><br />A Dummy's Guide to Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report <br />http://rabett.blogspot.com/2010/10/dummys-guide-to-strange-scholarship-in.html<br /><br />A Dummy's Guide to Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report II <br />http://rabett.blogspot.com/2010/10/dummys-guide-to-strange-scholarship-in_17.html<br /><br />Barton's Dirty Energy Money<br />http://dirtyenergymoney.com/view.php?searchvalue=Barton&search=1&type=search<br /><br />Whitfield's Dirty Energy Money<br />http://dirtyenergymoney.com/view.php?searchvalue=Whitfield&search=1&type=search<br /><br />Background reading<br />Plagiarism? Conspiracies? Felonies? Behind the Wegman Report and Decades of Related Anti-Science Attacks John R. Mashey<br /><br />http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/plagiarism%20conspiracies%20felonies%20v1%200%201.pdf<br /><br />Koch Industries Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine<br />http://www.greenpeace.org/raw/content/usa/press-center/reports4/koch-industries-secretly-fund.pdf<br /><br />COVERT OPERATIONS: The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama. by Jane Mayer<br />http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer?<br /><br />The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party<br />http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?_r=2&hp<br /><br />Charles and David Koch's company, Koch Industries, the largest private corporation in America, has also denied direct links to the Tea Party. However, new footage clearly showing David Koch interacting with his tea party foot soldiers has come to light.<br />http://www.desmogblog.com/david-koch-has-direct-contact-tea-party-astroturf-organizers-americans-prosperity-event<br /><br />Deeper Background Reading<br />Smoke, Mirrors & Hot Air: How ExxonMobil Uses Big Tobacco's Tactics to Manufacture Uncertainty on Climate Science<br />http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/exxon_report.pdfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com