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Re:How thermometer and satellite data is adjusted and why it... by kapitza on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @05:48PM (#12963023)
You don't need dishonest researchers to see this effect. You just need researchers who care, personally and/or professionally, about the impact of their work.

I'm sure Mr. Spock is a professor somewhere. If you talk to real working scientists, you'll find very few Spocks. Also, there are not a lot of Victorian gentleman-scientists; they all need to be funded...

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Re:How thermometer and satellite data is adjusted and why it... by cpncrunch on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:08PM (#12963763)
Sure, but my point is that some scientists are more trustworthy than others, just like some newspapers are more trustworthy.
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Re:How thermometer and satellite data is adjusted and why it... by monkmartinez on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:17PM (#12964493)
Eh, the idea of "trust" gets into non-quantifiable territory very quickly. Further, your analogy with newspapers is, quite frankly, not good. I would say that generally speaking, if a newspaper consistently confirms one's biases it is more likely to be deemed "trustworthy" and vice-versa with "non-trustworthy" newspapers.
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Re:How thermometer and satellite data is adjusted and why it... by cpncrunch on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:22AM (#12967677)
No thats simply not true. Is a random personal blog as trustworthy as the globe and mail?
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