Re:No One Peer-Reviews Scientific Software
by billswift on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @05:00AM
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The IPCC report is a political document. It uses results that support its position and ignores everything else. The entire book "The Deniers" is a collection of complaints by scientists that the IPCC twisted their results to support its agenda. Ironically, nearly all of the scientists still "believe" in global warming, they just think THEIR work was misused.
> Because the politicians and lobbyists who advocate for the "skeptics" are paragons of honesty and openness.
You got it backwards, nobody expects any politicians and lobbyists to be paragons of honesty and openness!
That is why when scientists start acting as politicians and lobbyists, they lose their credibility, and that is the issue he was pointing out.
The IPCC report is free and public, for exactly this reason. It's quite plain from their arguments that few "skeptics" ever actually look at it.
"Yes, I know that will drive some scientists mad compared to the current secretive system but it's time to let some daylight in, folks. You'll never, ever win an argument with an honest skeptic if you're keeping secrets."
Riiight. Because the politicians and lobbyists who advocate for the "skeptics" are paragons of honesty and openness. Those dirty scientists could learn a thing or two.
(I have to say...your comment is the most brazen example of black-is-white, up-is-down spin I've ever seen on HN. Bravo.)