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Tag Archives: Research
The Ivory Tower
This is a post I’ve been thinking about for a while, and my thoughts are still not fully fleshed out, but I’ll have a go at writing it anyway. You sometimes encounter a suggestion that academics regard themselves as living … Continue reading
Doing science
This whole furore about Karl et al. has got me thinking more about how we actually conduct science/research. There is, I think, a perception that doing science/research involves following a fairly well defined set of procedures about which there should … Continue reading
Excellence!
Unless you’re a UK-based academic, you may not know that yesterday was an important day in UK academia; it was the release of the results from the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise. This is an assessment of most of … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged atmospheric co2 concentration, Excellence, Guardian, REF2014, Research, Research Excellence Framework, universities
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Elements of truth
Stoat’s recent post about peer review, reminded me that there was something related that I had been considering writing about. There appears to be many climate “skeptics” (deniers some would call them) who regularly make claims about peer review being … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Science
Tagged Academics, Peer-review, Research, research funding, universities
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Value-free science?
Reiner Grundmann has a new post on Die Klimazwiebel discussing whether or not philosophy can enlighten climate science. Reiner also has an earlier post about the same topic. As far as I can tell, the basic argument seems to be … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, Global warming, Roy Spencer
Tagged climate science, Cornwall Alliance, Global warming, Reiner Grundmann, Research, science, value-free
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Watt about the con-men?
There is a recent Watts Up With That (WUWT) post called how a scientist becomes a con-man. This was about a Dutch psychologist called Diederik Stapel who carried out research in the general area of sociology. Some of his work … Continue reading
