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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
70 Comments
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
48 Comments
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
161 Comments
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
