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- Academic freedom and scholarship: perspective from Canada Fri, 30 Apr 21, 9:02amby Pamela Lindsay Mentorships by professors of students are among the vital functions of a university. Here I expose the vulnerable underbelly of mentorship and one possible threat to academic freedom and scholarship. A tiny...
- Uncomfortable knowledge Thu, 4 Mar 21, 5:28amby Judith Curry On the misuse of science and scientific authority. The latest issue of The Breakthrough Journal is a tour de force. Excerpts from the Introduction to the issue: <begin quote> Donald Rumsfeld famously...
- A climate of dialogue Sat, 13 Feb 21, 3:41amby Judith Curry A pacated dialogue between two serious thinkers who disagree about climate change. This post provides excerpts of a dialogue between European scholars Andrea Saltelli and Paul-Marie Boulanger. There are some...
- What the pandemic has taught us about science Sun, 11 Oct 20, 1:24amThe scientific method remains the best way to solve many problems, but bias, overconfidence and politics can sometimes lead scientists astray It’s been awhile since I have been so struck by an article that I felt moved...
- How we fool ourselves Mon, 5 Oct 20, 4:30amby Judith Curry Crowd sourcing examples of fallacious thinking from climate science. While I have been very busy, I have kept the Denizen’s entertained with threads on politics and cancel culture. Lets face it, that...
- Culturally-determined response to climate change: Part III Sat, 16 May 20, 11:48pmby Andy West Climate change affirmative responses to all survey questions are culturally determined, and across National Publics related to religiousity. Cultural attitudes inappropriately push climate policy. Introduction...
- Apparent Paradoxes in the relationship of Climate ‘Concerns, Skepticism, Activism, and Priority’, explained by Religiosity Tue, 28 Apr 20, 12:44pmby Andy West Explores the contrast between Allied and Core belief in the culture of climate catastrophe, and the relationships of these plus religiosity to Climate Change Activism (XR and Children’s Strikes for Climate)...
- Can religiosity predict cultural climate beliefs? Sat, 18 Apr 20, 9:54amby Andy West Probing the relationship between religiosity globally, and cultural beliefs in the narrative of imminent / certain global climate catastrophe: Post 1 of 3...
- In favor of epistemic trespassing Wed, 15 Apr 20, 11:12amby Judith Curry On the importance of expertise from other fields for COVD19 and climate change. This post is motivated by a tweet from Steve McIntyre, with comment from Ken Rice: Here is the link to Annan’s post Dumb...
- Sunday fun: personality testing Mon, 6 Apr 20, 12:30amby Judith Curry And now for something different. A sociological experiment for the Denizens. Please take the Enneagram personality test (with instinctual variant) and report your results in a comment. I scored a strong 1...
- Legacy of Climategate – 10 years later Wed, 13 Nov 19, 5:25amby Judith Curry My reflections on Climategate 10 years later, and also reflections on my reflections of 5 years ago. Last week, an email from Rob Bradley reminded me of my previous blog post The legacy of Climategate: 5 years...
- ‘Alarmism enforcement’ on hurricanes and global warming Sun, 8 Sep 19, 5:00amby Judith Curry I used to be concerned about ‘consensus enforcement’ on the topic of climate change. Now I am concerned about ‘alarmism enforcement.’ Ever since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, any hurricane...
- Child prophets and proselytizers of climate catastrophe Tue, 30 Jul 19, 4:11amby Andy West The role of children in the culture of climate catastrophism 1.Serious scenarios for children: reality or culture? 1.1 Frightening our children: When do we find it acceptable to institutionally frighten children?...
- Climate scientists’ pre-traumatic stress syndrome Tue, 9 Jul 19, 6:15amby Judith Curry It’s getting worse. About 5 years ago, I wrote two blog posts on climate scientists’ pre-traumatic stress syndrome: Pre-traumatic stress syndrome: climate trauma survival trips Pre-traumatic stress...
- Truth(?) in testimony and convincing policy makers Thu, 27 Jun 19, 11:23pmby Judith Curry Some reflections, stimulated by yesterday’s Congressional Hearing, on the different strategies of presenting Congressional testimony...