His «denier funding» reports in particular are tedious to look through, and despite all the work he puts into them, they only paint a foggy guilt - by - association picture of skeptic funding and never provide evidence than any amount, large or small, was accompanied by an industry directive to misinform the public and / or fabricate
false science reports.
Not exact matches
«Anomaly detection isn't new, and it has a problematic history of
reporting a lot of
false positives,» says Dr. Will Enck, an assistant professor of computer
science at NC State and co-author of a paper on the work.
Current practices lead to «cherry - picking which analyses or experiments to
report on the basis of their P values» and «corrupts
science and fills the literature with claims likely to be overstated or
false,» he wrote.
The call by some educators and policymakers for a back - to - basics approach to math and
science to improve student achievement is based on a
false assumption that curriculum and instruction have strayed from traditional roots, a new
report argues.
Too many exaggerated /
false claims will erode the credibility of
science (just like for the WMD -
reports).
Another way of saying it: Although we are seeing less outright
false balance in climate coverage than a decade or two ago, bias against mainstream
science understanding persists in the relatively subtle form of selective
reporting of eyebrow - raising claims, which strengthen the impression that scientists are always changing their story, in which case, shrug.
The BBC's viewers and listeners could soon be hearing a lot less hot air from climate change skeptics, under new guidance warning of the risk of «
false balance» in
science reports.
With this
report out, it's time the media move on from the
false - balance discussion of whether climate change is established by
science and onto the action and impacts.
To say that a
report about industry manipulation of climate
science viewpoints which cites Kert Davies is «not news» is actually
false, but in a comically roundabout way.
by Katie Grimes, E&E Legal Senior Media Fellow, and Tom Tanton, E&E Legal's Director of
Science and Technology Assessment As appearing in Flash
Report False claims about the success of California's green economy have been front - page headlines for several years.
Some traditional media outlets responsibly
reported the story, beginning with the British newspaper The Guardian; but it certainly hasn't received the same attention given to the earlier
false claim that the
science of climate change has been fabricated — a story that itself received far more attention when it initially broke than when it was completely and thoroughly (pdf) and beyond all doubt debunked as not only systemic lies, but lies promoted through what appears to have been criminal activity.
A just released peer reviewed Climate
Science Research
Report has once again proven that it is all but certain that EPA's basic claim that CO2 is a pollutant is totally
false.
Yet the NY Times and WaPos of the world would like us to believe that such
reporting * is * their forte... yet... they've really done little (if anything) to expose as
false claims that there are two legitimate scholarly sides to the «climate debate», and at times add credibility to claims that indeed perhaps the climate
science side is the side playing games (climategate coverage, etc) rather than the McI's, Wegman's, and RP [J / S] rs of the world.
A fascinating exercise for any objective reporter to undertake would be to ask the student to cite actual physical evidence (full context document scans, undercover video / audio transcripts, leaked emails, money - transfer receipts, etc.) proving skeptic scientists were paid to fabricate demonstratively
false science papers,
reports, assessments or viewpoints — material that could stand up in a courtroom evidentiary hearing proving a pay - for - performance arrangement exists.