The extensively
plagiarized Wegman report is also not a reliable source for doubts about «the hockey stick».
The hockeystickers have also accused me of
plagiarizing Wegman, even though my book (Assessing Climate Change) has over 400 direct quotes with attribution (including quite a few from climateaudit.org) and over 1,400 specific references to about 400 references.
Not exact matches
The 2nd Ed was the one
plagiarized / altered in the
Wegman Report.
Edward
Wegman and Yasmin Said published two largely -
plagiarized papers in a «peer - reviewed» Wiley journal they edit with David Scott.
As Bart doubtless knows,
Wegman never
plagiarized anything.
As observed elsewhere (I don't have the reference at hand, sorry): Either (a) The hockey stick paper (MBHxx) had bad statistics, and
Wegman & co-author
plagiarized various material for their report, or (b) the hockey stick paper (MBHxx) had bad statistics and
Wegman & co-author didn't
plagiarize various material for their support.
You do know that
Wegman and Barton not only
plagiarized but misinterpreted the textbook?
By the way, this is what
Wegman had to say in a recent email: «It is my opinion that Dr. Rapp has not
plagiarized anything and I hold him harmless» and claims that these are «wild conclusions that have nothing to do with reality».
Bradley had accused
Wegman of
plagiarizing his work -LRB-
Bradley had accused
Wegman of
plagiarizing his work (more meaningless «boilerplate,» according to Climate Audit, irrelevant to
Wegman's findings) in his 2006 report that exposed statistical problems with Mann's work.
But
Wegman's report may sink under the weight of
plagiarized material and while that would be a pity, that's sometimes the way things work.»
«We would never knowingly publish
plagiarized material» wrote
Wegman, a former CSDA journal editor.»
But there is more, John Mashey and Deep Climate have now presented strong evidence that some of
Wegman's students
plagiarized large sections of their doctoral theses.
Not only has the
Wegman report to Congress been shown by Deep Climate to have large
plagiarized sections, but the gang that couldn't copy straight stated conclusions that were in direct contradiction to those of the sources they were copied from.
DP and Mashey merely audited
Wegman, and he has been found to
plagiarize and merely duplicate (rather than independently replicate) McIntyre's non-work.
So
Wegman not only
plagiarized the social network analysis and background text, he also
plagiarized the core statistical analysis - the crux of his supposed value add - albeit presumably with the full awareness and tacit (if not explicit) consent of its original authors.
The evidence that
Wegman plagiarized others is quite strong.
According to earlier revelations from Deep Climate,
Wegman also cribbed - arguably
plagiarized - work from Raymond Bradley, lifting whole sections of his 1999 textbook, but periodically changing material or inserting information calculated to cast doubt on the reliability of tree - ring data (the source of the MBH climate reconstruction).
Rapp
plagiarizing a section of the
Wegman report would be a problem for Rapp, but not for the report itself.
If
Wegman has done a statistical analysis of his work vs. those pieces he's been accused of
plagiarizing, it's news to me.
Bradley had accused
Wegman of
plagiarizing his work (more meaningless «boilerplate,» according to Climate Audit, irrelevant to
Wegman's findings) in his 2006 report that -LSB-...]
The only private statement I can recall was that
Wegman said: «It is my opinion that Dr. Rapp has not
plagiarized anything and I hold him harmless.»