XPost: alt.global-warming
From: kym@kymhorsell.com
In alt.global-warming R Kym Horsell wrote:
...
Viruses locked up in old ice may be "more interesting" than the
average virus active now.
Just to be in the ice record they are more likely to have been
widely spread at some point in the past.
The older the virus the more likely it would be to be more
fundamental or widely applicable between different species or
types of cells now.
--
Ross McKitrick was so upset about a paper `Learning from mistakes in
climate research'(Benestad et al., 2015) that he has written a letter
of complaint and asked for immediate retraction of the pages
discussing his work.
This is an unusual step in science, as most disagreements and debate
involve a comment or a response to the original article. The exchange
of views, then, provides perspectives from different angles and may
enhance the understanding of the problem. This is part of a learning
process.
...
Another way to interpret McKitrick's letter is that it is an attempt
to silence scientists. This is the second attempt by McKitrick to act
as a gatekeeper (he himself falsely accused climate scientists of
exactly this). He managed to prevent the paper from being published on
an earlier occasion when it was submitted to Climatic Change.
Attempts to censor articles with which one disagrees may have become
more commonplace in terms of motivated rejection of well-established
scientific propositions (Lewandowsky & Bishop, 2016).
A Norwegian organisation that challenges the IPCC ("klimarealistene")
has twice tried to silence my public discourse on climate science and
my comments on the Humlum paper by writing to the director of my
institute.
Attempts to silence criticism runs against the principles of science.
-- rasmus (Benestad), "Anti-scientists", realclimate.org, 9 Feb 2016
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