Toddsterpatriot
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Climate change denial and the abuse of peer review
CLEARING UP THE CLIMATE DEBATE: Professor Stephan Lewandowsky holds sceptics accountable for their subversion of the peer review process.
On 20 April 2010, a BP oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and creating the largest oil spill in history.
When President Obama sought to hold the corporation accountable by creating a $20B damage fund, this provoked Republican Congressman from Texas Joe Barton to issue a public apology.
An apology not to the people affected by the oil spill but to BP.
In a peculiar inversion of ethics, Barton called the Presidents measures a shakedown, finding it a tragedy in the first proportion that a corporation should be held accountable for the consequences of its actions.
What does a Congressmans inverted morality have to do with climate denial?
Quite a bit.
In a similar inversion of normal practice, most climate deniers avoid scrutiny by sidestepping the peer-review process that is fundamental to science, instead posting their material in the internet or writing books.
Books may be impressively weighty, but remember that they are printed because a publisher thinks they can make money, not necessarily because the content has scientific value.
Fiction sells, even if dressed up as science
"Fiction sells, even if dressed up as science"
But enough about AGW.