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Whatever Mr. McAuliffe’s love for the pursuit of discovery that lies at the foundation of scientific exploration, Dr. Mann may not be the best authority. His partisanship, indignation toward critics, and apparent refusal to alter his hypothesis despite contrary evidence hardly speaks to high-minded scientific ideals.
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Heretofore, facts have proven Dr. Mann and his cohorts wrong.
...Dr. Mann has every right under the First Amendment to be an apparatchik for the McAuliffe campaign. But it is not his right to shield his partisanship under the guise of his authority as a scientist. Particularly in light of his own conduct that habitually fails to live up to those ideals.

G-FEED: A climate for conflict

[Revkin] The potential impact of publication bias is perhaps my biggest concern. Your point about the median of the papers being 2011 is hardly reassuring. That could be seen as reflecting a gold rush effect (analysis attracted by funding, visibility, etc.). What leads to your conclusion that "we feel that it is unlikely that all of these results are false positives"?

You would only need perhaps half of them to be wrong to powerfully affect the overall trajectory of your findings, right?

Also, with that assertion that there are only a "handful of climate/conflict skeptics," you're implying there is some dominant group of "climate/conflict adherents" and that there is false balance on this particular issue. I don't see that in the literature or IPCC conclusions?

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