The Hockey Schtick: MUST SEE: New Richard Lindzen Debate

- Bishop Hill blog - An interesting medical paper

I chanced upon this abstract, which somehow seems very pertinent to the discussions we've been having on this site. If anyone can lay their hands on the full paper I'd be interested.

In the last 20 years there has been a progressive decline in the honesty of scientific communications. In science truth should be the primary value, and truthfulness the core evaluation. Everyone should be honest at all times and about everything, but especially scientists. On the contrary, the activity stops being science and becomes something else: Zombie science, a science that is dead but it is artificially kept moving by a continuous infusion of funding. Many are the causes of dishonesty in science, for example scientists may be subjected to such pressure that they are forced to be dishonest. The corruption of science has been amplified by the replacement of "peer usage" with "peer review" as the major mechanism of scientific evaluation, thus creating space into which dishonesty has expanded. The hope is in an ethical revolution capable of re-establishing the primary purpose of science: the pursuit of truth.

Medical Hypotheses 2009;73:633-5

[If you believed that Co2 might kill your grandchildren, how would *you* respond?]: Maldives battles rising tides with floating golf course plan

The island nation of the Maldives, confronted by rising oceans and a landscape that is just a few feet above sea level, is poised to build a floating golf course and convention centre in what could be the first of a series of futuristic off-shore developments designed to counter the threat posed by global warming and the rising oceans.

Berlin’s Wild Boar Population Cut in Half by Hunters, Coldness - BusinessWeek

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- The German capital’s wild boar population has been cut by more than half to about 3,000 because of hunting and cold winters, city officials said.