In the meantime, I wonder do you get why a retired dentist opining in the blogosphere and a couple of
scientists getting their work published are greeted differently?
Not exact matches
If someone else
publishes this
work, Smith will likely be able to
get his Ph.D., but he won't have a publication — not a good situation for a young
scientist.
But biology preprints are catching on, with proponents arguing that they will speed the dissemination of research, help researchers to
get feedback on their
work quickly, and allow young
scientists to
get credit for
work that hasn't yet been formally
published.
Later, in Brussels, I became hooked on the difficulties my fellow
scientists in the South had in finding partners, in
getting their excellent
work published, etc., and, without a second thought, I decided to spend a few years trying to tackle that problem.
When the
scientists involved at Woburn
published their
work, they
got a lot of criticism because people felt that they were relying on anecdotal information.
Five to 10 years ago, the sequencing of a single gene was often sufficient to
get a
scientist's
work published in a prestigious journal.
In one recent study
published in the journal Science Translational Medicine,
scientists looked at people with recurring migraine headaches over the course of multiple attacks and found that when docs told patients they had high expectations that a treatment would
work well, it did — even if it was a sugar pill, and even when the patients were told they were
getting the placebo.
G&T managed to
get their
work out there;
publishing it in Nature or Science would not have changed the fact that they're arguments just don't hold any water (they didn't do any new science, they just took what was already known, and then tried to use that to argue against what is already known — a search for logical inconsistency, which might have been worthwhile if they'd known what they were doing and if they'd gone after contrarian «theory»)-- unless it were edited, removing all the errors and non-sequitors, after which it would be no different than a physics book such as the kind a climate
scientist would use...
You make unjustified and untrue ad homimem attacks on excellent
scientists whose
work provides doubt to AGW although their
work has often been challenged but never faulted: e.g. you say «I have never argued against people like Lindzen and Christy and Spencer continuing to do their
work and attempting to
get it
published in reputable peer - reviewed journals, even if their
work does seem to become increasingly sloppy and desperate.»
Let me guess, like Mr. Steele, you argue that it is much better to
publish your science on blogs because it «
gets the word out», and avoids «suppression» if your
work had to be subject to peer review by informed climate
scientists, and you remain amusingly self - unaware that this preference actually accidentally reveals that your aspirations are political — you desire the exposure, or less euphemistically, propaganda, which a blog can provide, not the vigorous hearing in the court of logic that the scientific and peer review process offers.
Yes,
scientists dislike it when
work that they think deliberately obfuscates the issues
gets published.
lolwot, in the past was: if you don't give 10 % to the church, St. Peter will
get angry and will sent hailstorms and create floods; after Darwin
published his book — the shonky
scientists started with GLOBAL warmings and ice ages to scare the people — only now because of electronic media and communication technology — they are more loud — but the scare tactic doesn't
work; because people are not buying the new socialist religion of worshiping the CO2: http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/q-a/