- Bishop Hill blog - Stern's wheat graph redux

There's a great deal of interest. For example, the dog-leg interpretation of the data is not part of the original paper, but instead appears to be a bit of spin added by the noble lord. Notice also that an inconvenient data point (indicated by my red arrow) has been deleted in the Stern graph. After Climategate, readers will of course be familiar with the idea that deleting inconvenient data is a technique that is widely accepted, and indeed one that has been endorsed by many at the top of the scientific establishment, including the president of the Royal Society.

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