Professor Mann libeled Andrew Bolt, who demanded and got an apology. Mark Steyn has the details, along with some discussion on Mann’s colleagues’ apparent discomfiture with him and the hockey stick.
Category Archives: Political Commentary
Safety In Spaceflight
Over an Space News, Donald Robertson has an op-ed that could be a summary of my book, though he doesn’t mention it.
Peer Review
Over a hundred published papers have had to be withdrawn because they turned out to be computer generated:
Labbé emphasizes that the nonsense computer science papers all appeared in subscription offerings. In his view, there is little evidence that open-access publishers — which charge fees to publish manuscripts — necessarily have less stringent peer review than subscription publishers.
This sort of thing is why I pay no attention to warm mongers who tell me to publish in a peer reviewed journal. Peer review, to the degree that it’s done with any rigor at all, turned out to be “pal review” in climate science, as revealed by the CRU emails.
The War on Poverty
Why we lost it, and why we’re continuing to lose it, despite many trillions of dollars. The only way to win the war on poverty is to end the war on the market and economy.
The EPA’s Greenhouse Regs
They had a tough day in court. I wonder if any administration has lost as many court cases as this one?
Whole Foods
It’s part of the upscale left’s war on science.
(Libertarian) John Mackey is getting rich satisfying a niche.
ObamaCare
Why it continues to be unpopular:
“Current and former administration officials . . . have been surprised at how steadfast the opposition has remained,” the Washington Post reported last summer, quoting MIT economist Jonathan Gruber saying, “It used to be you had a fight and it was over, and you moved on.” But few have moved on, for reasons which are not all that hard to tease out: It’s not working out, in fact it’s a disaster; it’s blowing holes in the federal budget; the win-to-lose balance is way out of kilter, as many more people are hurt than helped by it. Obamacare may collapse on its own for practical reasons, but there is a fourth strike against it that adds a dimension of weakness no comparable measure has faced: Much of the country believes it’s a fraud, passed dishonestly, and not deserving of moral authority. In short, they find it nearly illegal, highly immoral, and possibly fattening. And their minds won’t be changed.
Nor should they be. When you cram the biggest crap sandwich in the history of the world down the county’s throat on a lying, corrupt partisan basis, you deserve to lose credibility and power. Read the whole thing, though.
The Farmer’s Almanac
…is more reliable than the climate models.
No surprise here. The climate models are crap.
Phony Scandal Update
Did the IRS target Christine O’Donnell and leak her IRS records to the press?
I have absolutely no reason not to believe it.
Judith Curry
…tells her colleagues to stop circling the climate wagons around Michael Mann.
If she does want to counter sue, I suspect she’d have no problem raising funds.
[Update a few minutes later]
This seems to be the nut graf:
For the past decade, scientists have come to the defense of Michael Mann, somehow thinking that defending Michael Mann is fighting against the ‘war on science’ and is standing up for academic freedom. Its time to let Michael Mann sink or swim on his own. Michael Mann is having all these problems because he chooses to try to muzzle people that are critical of Mann’s science, critical of Mann’s professional and personal behavior, and critical of Mann’s behavior as revealed in the climategate emails. All this has nothing to do with defending climate science or academic freedom.
Yup.
[Update early afternoon]
Ken White at Popehat says that Mark has a fool for a client.
I have no comment, obviously.