BBC - Climate science: Sceptical about bias [2]
Great article by the BBC today [7] on the so-called climate change "skeptics."
Environmental correspondent, Richard Black invited sceptics to put their cards on the table, and to send him documentation or other firm evidence of "research bias" that is so often a complaint by the flat-earthers. As Black explains, he
…anticipated drowning in a torrent of accusations of research grants turned down, membership of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) denied, scientific papers refused by journals, job applications refused, and invitations to speak at conferences drying up."
The resulting claims Black received were less than impressive:
The sum total of evidence obtained through this open invitation, then, is one first-hand claim of bias in scientific journals, not backed up by documentary evidence; and three second-hand claims, two well-known and one that the scientist in question does not consider evidence of anti-sceptic feeling."
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