Category Archives: Pseudoscience

What does the Vostok ice core tell us?

Posted on June 18, 2017 by

Euan Mearns, who runs a blog called Energy Matters, had a post in 2014 about The Vostok ice core: Temperature CO2 and CH4. This post has apparently had 8000 reads, is probably one of the most read texts on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, Climate sensitivity, ClimateBall, Global warming, Greenhouse effect, Pseudoscience, Research, Science | Tagged , , , , , | 72 Comments

Oh no, not again

Posted on February 26, 2017 by

Somehow a paper arguing that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is mostly natural has managed to pass peer-review. Gavin Schmidt’s already covered it in a Realcimate post. Gavin Cawley’s paper is, in a sense, a pre-emptive response to this new … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, IPCC, Pseudoscience, Research | Tagged , , , , , , , | 64 Comments

SpeedoScience

Posted on January 18, 2017 by

Talking about pseudoscience does not always bore me, but it often does. Not because it begs a far from obvious question, but because of its unsexiness. This kind of talk belongs to what I shall call, in honor of the famous WPM International, SpeedoScience: SpeedoScience. N. An activity where … Continue reading →

Posted in Open Thread, Pseudoscience, Science, Scientisits, The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , | 17 Comments

Science wars, science crises, and wars on science?

Posted on November 25, 2016 by

There have been a number of recent articles (that I’ve noticed, at least) about science wars, the war on science, and a crisis in science. Judith Curry covered one, there was a comment about an unprecedented crisis in science in … Continue reading →

Posted in Pseudoscience, Research, Science, The philosophy of science, The scientific method, Universities | Tagged , , , , | 108 Comments

Our Ethical Web of Beliefs

Posted on September 7, 2016 by

Last winter, I saw over the tweeter that Lawrence Torcello published a new paper. Paywalled. So I asked him for a copy, using the hashtag #CanIHazPDF: Paywalled, @LTorcello – #canihazpdf please? — willard (@nevaudit) January 24, 2016 He sent me … Continue reading →

Posted in ethics, Pseudoscience, Sound Science (tm), The philosophy of science, The scientific method | Tagged , , , , | 154 Comments

Pseudoscience at UCL

Posted on July 11, 2016 by

I happened upon an announcement for the London Climate Change Conference 2016, which is to be held at University College London (UCL). The announcement not only contains a temperature graph that appears to have been drawn by hand, but those … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Peter Ward, Pseudoscience, Science | Tagged , , , , , , | 109 Comments