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Re:How thermometer and satellite data is adjusted and why it... by djsumdog on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:07PM (#12963152)
You wouldn't expect regular human beings to be subject to confirmation bias? Scientist are people and have opinions. No matter how logical we think we are, all of us have bias. In fact a good scientists is always willing to doubt his or her axioms. Doubt is the pillar of new discoveries and innovation:

http://khanism.org/science/doubt/

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Re:How thermometer and satellite data is adjusted and why it... by jackmott on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:47PM (#12963384)
The researchers picked by the Koch brothers (Berkely Earth Science) get the same results for temperature reconstructions guys. This stuff is real. You don't even have to do adjustments to get essentially the same trend, you can verify this with excel, all by yourself.
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Re:How thermometer and satellite data is adjusted and why it... by cpncrunch on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @07:52PM (#12963711)
>You wouldn't expect regular human beings to be subject to confirmation bias?

Strawman. Nobody mentioned confirmation bias. We are talking about "bureaucratic incentive", i.e. fudging results to please your boss.

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