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- The Climate Wars are Damaging Science Sat, 20 Jun 15, 1:41amMatt Ridley has produced the shortest whole, killer summary of the sordid state of climate science, science journalism, and science associations for Quadrant magazine...
- The polarisation of the climate debate has gone too far, says Matt Ridley Sat, 24 Jan 15, 4:42amAre we all intelligent adults in the room – can we discuss the weather without calling people names?
- Matt Ridley on Tamiflu-gate. Hidden data, omitted trials, “like the Hockey Stick Graph” Thu, 9 Jan 14, 5:09amMatt Ridley looks at pharmaceutical research and finds problems of confirmation bias, lack of access to data, and lack of replication of results. He compares it to the hockey stick debacle which is rising in notoriety to...
- PR Wars: IPCC fights for relevance, halves warming, claims to be 95% certain of something vaguer Mon, 16 Sep 13, 1:22pmWe are over the peak. Years late, the IPCC concedes some territory and wears headlines they must hate (“Global warming is just HALF what we said“, “We got it wrong on warming“), but PR still rules,...
- Call for essays: The 2013 Matt Ridley Prize Sun, 7 Jul 13, 8:05amThe Matt Ridley prize for exposing environmental pseudoscience was inspired by Matt’s discovery that a Ridley family trust was making money from a wind farm company...
- A big speech: Matt Ridley on scientific heresy and the temptations of confirmation bias Wed, 2 Nov 11, 6:24pmAnother notch on the winners tally board. It’s a mark of the times that one of the most popular, well known and respected science commentators is willing to to put his reputation and effort into laying out such controversial...
- British energy landscape shifted a month ago, old media waking up now… Tue, 25 Oct 11, 3:39amIn the UK, gargantuan (as in wow!#$) amounts of cheap energy were discovered a month ago, yet it seemingly hasn’t changed the political landscape...