When you read
a science report claiming that 2016 was the hottest year on record, you might expect that you will get numbers.
Their Science Report claims to prove humans cause climate change and is the basis for The Impacts, Adaption, and Vulnerability Report that lists a multitude of potential disasters.
The conclusion used in the 2001 IPCC
Science Report claimed the tree rings (the effect) showed no increase in temperature (the cause).
Not exact matches
In fact, one study published in The BMJ
reported that only 46 percent of Oz's
claims were supported by
science.
A groundbreaking
report by the Wall Street Journalwriter, Andrew Higgins, makes the astonishing
claim that a priceless photo archive of ancient manuscripts of the Qur» an, which were considered to have been destroyed in the bombing of the Bavarian Academy of
Science, is still in existence.
Northrop, by changing the rules of evidence in the light of the philosophy of
science,
claims that language is not simply a linguistic convention but is a
report on reality.
The United States» top independent
science experts have blessed a draft Obama administration climate
science report — left behind for the Trump administration to finish — that presents a strong contrast to inaccurate scientific
claims by the current president's top environmental official.
The
claims were underscored in a 2009
report of the National Research Council that found that forensic
science as currently practiced has «little systematic research to validate the discipline's basic premises and techniques.»
An expert on
science and technology employment and immigration
claims that a recent NSF
report accentuates the positive
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.
Science Careers» sister site, ScienceInsider,
reported yesterday afternoon that 150 scientists and 75 scientific groups have co-signed an open letter protesting what they
claim is an overreliance on journal impact factors by funding agencies, academic institutions, journals, and organizations that provide publication metrics.
«Available research does not support the
claim that increasing
science literacy will lead to appreciably greater support for
science in general,» the
report concludes.
One news
report over the weekend even
claimed that a paper on the discovery had been submitted to
Science, as had been the case a decade ago.
Fraud is no stranger to Chinese
science: Shanghai Jiaotong University fired U.S. - educated chip researcher Chen Jin in 2006 for fabricating high - profile
claims, and China's national
science agency blacklisted 13 scientists earlier this month for fraud, Xinhua
reports.
The
report, titled «Knowledge, Networks and Nations: Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century,» analyzes peer - reviewed
science papers with abstracts in English to assess which countries were
claiming slices of an expanding research pie.
Mikovits cautions that her
Science report did not assert that XMRV causes CFS but only
claimed to have detected XMRV in CFS patients.
Jigen, who
claims to be a life
science researcher in the private sector, says his interest in scientific misconduct began in late 2010 when he couldn't reproduce results
reported by a researcher at Dokkyo Medical University in Mibu, Tochigi Prefecture.
In a
report issued on 26 July, the
science ministry says CANU has not complied; it has vetted DANU members as if it were electing new members, the government
claims.
The «Forensic
Science Assessments: A Quality and Gap Analysis of Latent Fingerprint Analysis»
report makes clear that while latent fingerprint examiners can successfully rule out most of the population from being the source of a latent fingerprint based on observed features, insufficient data exist to determine how unique fingerprint features really are, thus making it scientifically baseless to
claim that an analysis has enabled examiners to narrow the pool of sources to a single person.
And now it has something to show for it,
reports Science: The company
claims it's gotten ten times better at containing high - energy particles necessary for fusion...
Bergman et al author a
report published by WHO and UNEP which purported to challenge the 2002 WHO - UNEP State of the
Science report on EDCs,
claiming numerous human health effects attributed to EDC exposure.
Flannery is quite critical of the IPCC process, describing it as «lowest common denominator
science» and
claiming that it must be assumed that things are likely to be worse than are described in those
reports.
Unlike other past cloning
claims, the scientists have
reported their work in a prestigious, peer - reviewed journal,
Science.
published
report, Hayward stated that holding the US back from fulfilling it's petroleum - based product requirements is «a reluctance to develop the nation's massive natural resources under the mistaken belief in the unproven
science that
claims carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning of fossil fuels is the major cause of recent and future warming of the Earth.
The
report does, however, make some assertions about certain compounds being harmful as a justification for why FCLO is not safe, and some of these
claims are not backed by existing
science (or are at least controversial).
While the authors should know better than to make such
claims, it's very clear that the
science - naive journalists who
report on these studies have never learned that association does not equal causation.
This is not an industry body but a gov» t department making a
claim based on
science — and the
report does cite many studies including meta studies of randomised controlled groups etc..
«Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning
Science,» a
report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), examines these and other unfounded neuroscience
claims.
Amid
reports that overweight pupils underperform academically — data obtained from at least six studies by Scottish PHD student Anne Martin show that children who are obese at 11 achieve lower than average marks in maths,
science and English at 16 — and findings that there is a higher incidence of serious childhood obesity in London than New York, figures like the London Health Commission's Lord Darzi are
claiming that the issue is «at breaking point.»
The
report also
claimed that the Ofqual requirements were themselves inadequate in that they left out areas of mathematics which underpinned the
sciences.
Oh, and a certain amount of contempt seems reasonable for those that
claim to be
reporting science but rather merely
report on opinions.
Too many exaggerated / false
claims will erode the credibility of
science (just like for the WMD -
reports).
World Climate
Report also criticized a story that ran in
Science Times last year on an explorer's
claim that he found a newly exposed island off the east coast of Greenland.
Rather than
report every article in a scientific journal or evry press release by an interrested party, perhaps preliminary studies and those with little
science to back the
claims should be put on the back burner until more information is obtained.
RE «Flannery is quite critical of the IPCC process, describing it as «lowest common denominator
science» and
claiming that it must be assumed that things are likely to be worse than are described in those
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.
In stark contrast to
claims Trump's administration may axe funding to climate
science programmes, the Pentagon
report says weather and climate
science is a matter of national security.
Government - funded climate
science is not the only research field where «experts» make bogus
claims, conduct fraudulent
science and
report only cherry - picked data.
A major piece of evidence is the disparity between the Working Group I (WGI)(Physical
Science Basis)
Report, particularly the Chapter on computer models and the
claims in the Summary for Policymakers (SPM)
Report.
«The messages of the two points outlined in the extract above are: (1) the
claims about increases in frequency and intensity of extreme events are generally not supported by actual observations and, (2) official information about climate
science is largely controlled by agencies through (a) funding choices for research and (b) by the carefullyselected (i.e. biased) authorship of
reports such as the EPA Endangerment Finding and the National Climate Assessment.»
These were the origins of the institutional structures that we now take for granted in contemporary
science journals, conferences, and peer review, so that
claims could be
reported clearly and subject to rigorous scrutiny.
But contrary to the Journal's
claim that the EPA disavowed that finding because the agency had been «barraged by plaintiff attorneys and Hollywood celebrities,» it was actually changed after the EPA's scientific advisory board, which evaluates the agency's «use of
science,» pointed out that the draft conclusion wasn't supported elsewhere in the
report:
The IPCC's
claims about these things have been thoroughly refuted by the recent
report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical
Science, which cites nearly 5,000 peer - reviewed scientific articles that contradict the IPCC's
claims.
Rick Pilz, who worked for the US Climate Change
Science Program, and whose job it was to oversee the writing of reports for policymakers, claimed that he saw the science watered down and censored by a White Hous
Science Program, and whose job it was to oversee the writing of
reports for policymakers,
claimed that he saw the
science watered down and censored by a White Hous
science watered down and censored by a White House aide.
A
report in
Science claims that N2O emissions are currently the single most important cause of ozone depletion and are expected to remain so throughout the 21st century.
The latest NCA CSSR
Report is perhaps the most egregious example of advocacy
science in history assembling a series of wild though easily refuted
claims.
A
report in The Sunday Times on 24 January
claimed that the United Nations climate
science panel (IPCC) wrongly linked global warming to an increase in the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods.
Eilperin could also learn from the BBC, which is also
reporting on the new
science refuting scary man - made climate
claims.
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.
On 3/28/07, David M. Lawrence wrote: > > The more I listen to scientists
claim that their (our) job is to
report on >
science and avoid politics, the more I wonder about the historical > validity > of the alleged separation between
science and politics.