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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p class="title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p class="title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/09/17/richard-muller-radio-rambles-part-1-kochs-very-deep-very-thoughtful-and-properly-skeptical/#more-5138">https://deepclimate.org/2012/09/17/richard-muller-radio-rambles-part-1-kochs-very-deep-very-thoughtful-and-properly-skeptical/#more-5138</a></font></p><p class="title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9/12</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx many</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Richard Muller Radio Rambles, part 1: Kochs “very deep”, “very thoughtful” and “properly skeptical”</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Posted on September 17, 2012 </font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A recent Canadian radio appearance by Berkeley Earth founder Richard Muller has shed additional light on the role of Charles Koch, a major funder of the Berkeley Earth effort (and arguably the top funder of climate contrarians over the last several years). In the interview on CBC’s Sunday Edition, Muller mounted his most spirited and detailed defence of Koch yet, describing the oil billionaire as “very thoughtful” and “properly skeptical” of climate science. And the Berkeley Earth website goes even further, linking to an official Koch statement that makes the preposterous claim that the Charles Koch Foundation supports “sound, nonpartisan, scientific research”. That rings especially hollow this election season, given the current massive pro-Republican and anti-regulation push by fossil fuel interests, led as usual by Koch Industries.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Berkeley Earth project is of mild scientific interest, but its leadership has proven adept at garnering intense media interest with each update (one can only imagine the media explosion once actual scientific publication is achieved). In the wake of the latest Berkeley Earth release, self-proclaimed “converted skeptic” Richard Muller has once again made the media rounds. Thus it came to be that the CBC brought Muller into my home, and I’ve since taken in a lot of his notions about climate science from a number of sources. Those range from his 2009 “Naked Copenhagen” WSJ op-ed piece and the 2010 head-exploding i4energy presentation (where the dubious rationale for the Berkeley Earth project was first made public), to his recent New York Times op-ed, and his interviews with Diane Rehm and Amy Goodman.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But for now I’ll concentrate on the first part of Muller’s interview with CBC host Kevin Sylvester (of which I’ve prepared a partial transcript).</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Out of the gate, Muller’s appalling self-congratulation and arrogance are on display, as he hopes the Berkeley Earth team papers – none of which had even been accepted yet by a peer-reviewed journal – will “settle the science” about global warming. And why has this task fallen to Muller and the Berkeley Earth team, after thousands of papers and four comprehensive IPCC reports carefully documenting anthropogenic climate change? Well, it turns out “valid issues raised by thoughtful skeptics” had not been “clearly answered”. Those issues included station quality, data adjustments and selection of a “tiny fraction” of temperature stations.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">If this were just more of Muller’s self-aggrandizement accompanied by his usual dismissal of real climate scientists, one could simply roll one’s eyes and tune out. At least this time out, Muller did not accuse other scientists of misconduct and “data hiding”, as he has done in the past.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But then Sylvester asked about Koch involvement, and things got really bizarre. Unbelievably, Charles Koch turns out to be one of those “thoughtful skeptics”. And not just “thoughtful”, but “very deep” as well.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Q: I guess a lot of surprise for a number of people as well as was that the funding for this was from the Koch brothers. … Was there ever any influence … Was there anything that surprised them and maybe angered them about your results?</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A: No not at all. I mean, they’re made caricatures in the media. They’re actually very thoughtful people. You should read some of the books that Charles Koch has written. He’s very thoughtful, very deep. And from the beginning, he and I shared a concern there were issues that had not been addressed in a clearly transparent and objective way. And he wanted those answered. And no he never gave any hint whatsoever what answer he was hoping for, if any.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">However, there is little evidence that Charles Koch has accepted the Berkeley Earth findings, especially regarding anthropogenic genesis of global warming. After the release of the Berkeley Earth findings in October 2011, the Charles Koch Foundation gave this decidedly lukewarm comment on the Berkeley Earth results.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The research examined recent global surface temperature trends. It did not examine ocean temperature data or the cause of warming on our climate, as some have claimed.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That statement is still linked from the Berkeley Earth website FAQ entry on funding. But now that Berkeley Earth has gone even beyond the IPCC in attributing warming to human greenhouse gas emissions, the Koch Foundation has issued a second, truncated statement avoiding any discussion of the most recent findings. Even more telling is the apparent absence of Koch Foundation support in the second phase of Berkeley Earth (presuming that the Anonymous Foundation donating $250,000 is not associated with the Kochs).</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In the CBC interview, Muller went on to defend Charles Koch against accusations of being a climate change “denier”.</b></font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He knew that the science was in trouble, there were things wrong with it. People called him a denier because he was being properly skeptical about things that hadn’t been answered. That was silly. And from the beginning he made it absolutely clear all he wanted to do was good science.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">No, despite Muller’s protestations, the Kochs have been labeled deniers, not because they are “properly skeptical”, but because they have poured tens of millions into supporting contrarian think tanks and politicians who deny the primacy of anthropogenic influences, chiefly greenhouse gas emissions, in current and future global warming. And the Kochs will reportedly raise up to $400 million to support a Republican Party that has increasingly committed itself to inaction on climate change, among a whole set of extreme Tea Party inspired policies.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It’s understandable that Berkeley Earth would defend its own acceptance of Koch money. And it should be emphasized that there is absolutely no hint of improper influence on the project, from Koch or anyone else.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But by linking to an official Koch statement, Berkeley Earth implicitly endorses this deceitful description of Koch funding policy (as presented in both Koch statements).</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Charles Koch Foundation has long supported and will continue to support sound, nonpartisan, scientific researc</span>h.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This simply can not be squared with the Koch record, from the establishment of the Cato Institute through to Koch funding for the Heartland Institute and the Fraser Institute, to name just three examples. None of the $60 million that the Kochs have poured into such organizations over the years can conceivably be termed support for “scientific research”, let alone sound scientific research. As for the laughable claim that the “research” is non-partisan, all of the supported organizations are allied with Republican policies and politicians (or Conservative ones in the case of the Canadian Fraser Institute).</font></p><p class="title">
</p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A more realistic self-assessment (and rationale) for Koch activities can be found behind closed doors. For years, the Kochs have convened secretive biannual seminars that bring together like-minded Republican patrons with politicians and media boosters, as first reported by the New York Times in 2010. Audio tapes of the January 2011 seminar in Palm Springs, obtained by Mother Jones, feature Charles Koch in full rhetorical flight, with an oblique reference to Saddam Hussein and a warning that the 2012 election would be “the mother of all wars.”</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But the most revealing insights into the Koch mind set come from a ThinkProgress package containing the letter of invitation for the 2011 Palm Springs meeting, along with the agenda for the previous 2010 meeting held in Vail, Colorado.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Here are a couple of tidbits from the<b> Vail agenda.</b></font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Small group dinner:</b></font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Energy and Climate: What drives the regulatory assault on energy</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">? What are the economic and political consequences of this? How discredited is the climate change argument? What effect does this have on the electorate, especially in key states? [</span>p. 6]</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That makes the real Koch agenda very clear: climate science (or the “climate change argument” in Koch speak) must be “discredited” in order to blunt the “regulatory assault on energy”.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Another session focused on a familiar litany of “significant threats” from the Obama administration.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Understanding the Persistent Threats We Face</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The current administration swept into office with a promise to “fundamentally transform America.</b>” From the nationalization of health care to the rising power of unions, as well as a push for</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> major new climate and energy regulations</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, financial regulation, and even more government spending, there is no lack of significant threats for us to understand and address. [p. 7] [Emphasis added]</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The program summary for the “action oriented” 2011 meeting refers to past efforts to “counter” such “critical threats” as “climate change alarmism</span>”.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This action-oriented program brings together top experts and leaders to discuss – and offer solutions to counter – the most critical threats to our free society. Recent sessions have focused on addressing rapid government growth, countering climate change alarmism and the move toward socialized healthcare, developing strategies to advance liberty on college campuses, strengthening our state-based capabilities, and promoting judicial reform. Past meetings have featured such notable leaders as Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas; Governors Bobby Jindal and Haley Barbour; commentators John Stossel, Charles Krauthammer, Glenn Beck, and Rush Limbaugh; Senators Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn; and Representatives Paul Ryan, Mike Pence, and Torn Price. [Emphasis added]</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The featured presence of right-wing media stars like Beck and Limbaugh is fairly predictable, but the attendance of two sitting Supreme Court Justices is frankly shocking. And look who made a surprise appearance towards the end of that list: none other than then vice-presidential candidate in training (and climate change contrarian) Paul Ryan.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So much for “non-partisan scientific research”.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">But just because Muller doesn’t accept that Koch is a “denier”, doesn’t mean “deniers” don’t exist – far from it.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">If we take the standard, the consensus prior to our work as being what the IPCC had reported, then there are deniers who say: “There’s no global warming it’s all political”. And there are also deniers who say: “Oh, the IPCC is completely wrong – the situation is much, much worse than they say”. If they are denying the IPCC by saying it’s worse, they should be called deniers too. And that includes Al Gore and Tom Freidman as people who deny the IPCC report.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It’s a good thing we have Muller and the Kochs to occupy the middle ground between the “deniers” on both sides.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>As I’ve said before, Muller’s belated “conversion” to scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change is positive, albeit woefully late</b>. But he clings to many of his previous fallacious positions on a range of issues, beyond his absurd characterization of the Koch Brothers. Proper treatment of these could keep an assiduous blogger busy for a long time, so I’ll just summarize some of Muller’s most problematic points briefly.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">At the top of the list is Muller’s repeated insistence that “climategate” revealed gross scientific misconduct on the part of scientists at East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit.</span> Those accusations are completely unjustified, and based on a faulty grasp of the facts to boot. Berkeley Earth team member Zeke Hausfather has repudiated accusations of scientific malfeasance against CRU’s Phil Jones and Keith Briffa from the beginning. And even Chip Knappenberger rejected Steve McIntyre’s “analysis” of the Climategate email exchange concerning the IPCC TAR chart that showed reconstructions by Briffa and Jones, along with the MBH99 “hockey stick”, terming it “normal scientific discourse”. (I’ve discussed this particular aspect of “climategate” and the “hide-the-decline” controversy several times, notably here and here).</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Of course, it should also be pointed out that misinformation about “climategate” was assiduously promulgated by several groups funded by the Koch Brothers, notably Americans for Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute</b>.</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Climategate aside, though, here are some of the other gaffes and questionable “facts” that may occasion more detailed commentary. According to Muller:</b></font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hansen’s recent work on seasonal temperature extremes is “not correct” </span>(and Hansen “predicts” his findings in Gistemp “ahead of time” which makes Muller “very uncomfortable”). [Sources: CBC, i4energy.]</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“Is the Arctic melting due to global warming? You know, the evidence for that is very, very flimsy. I’m not even sure it’s true.”</b> Enough said – for now. [Source: Diane Rehm show]</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>China’s greenhouse gas emissions will increase more than five-fold by 2040, even with a 4% reduction in carbon intensity each and every year</b>. [Sources: Wall Street Journal and many others]</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">And, last but not least, we have an oldie but goodie (again via the CBC).</font></p><p class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“[T]he globe isn’t warming, at least not in recent years”.</font></p><p class="title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p class="title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I don’t see anything in that list to which Charles Koch would take the slightest exception.</font></font></p><p class="title"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>John Mashey has released an updated version of Strange Investigations at George Mason University [SIGMU PDF at DeSmogBlog], which tells the story of GMU’s slow-as-molasses misconduct inquiry of Edward Wegman through various email exchanges between paleoclimatologist Raymond Bradley and GMU. Mashey now includes correspondence involving one Donald Rapp, retired engineer/physicist turned climate contrarian author. Rapp has been complaining far and wide about the indignity of plagiarism complaints lodged at the University of Southern California and at his publisher Praxis/Springer, even going so far as to exhort USA Today reporter Dan Vergano to spread one email exchange “all over the internet”.</div><div>
</div><div>All this will no doubt prove fascinating reading and provide fodder for weeks to come, as it has in the past. (Highlight from early 2009: “But the donkeys on deepclimate.org are the Taliban of climate change – and just as dangerous”). But for now I want to focus on two emails from Wegman himself, both forwarded by Rapp. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wegman has some choice comments about the “totally unsavory” blog of yours truly, claiming it to be – wait for it – “developed in retaliation” for enquiries into the “obvious misconduct made clear” by climategate.</span> <b>But the problem is not just some obscure Canadian blogger; according to Wegman, even Bradley’s complaint to GMU itself is nothing more than “a smear campaign that attempts to deflect scrutiny from the real misconduct revealed by the climategate emails</b>”.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When the story of the Wegman misconduct inquiry first broke in USA Today, Wegman plaintively protested “We are not the bad guys”, leaving one to wonder just who the “bad guys” might be, at least in Wegman’s fevered imagination. Now, we have the answer in Wegman’s latest outrageous and unsubstantiated accusations against climate scientists.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Wegman’s eventual entanglement with Rapp resulted from a plagiarism complaint that was apparently lodged with University of Southern California, just as Rapp’s part-time adjunct position at the Space Engineering Science Center (SERC) was up for renewal. In the email exchange forwarded by Rapp to USA Today’s Dan Vergano we see how SERC director and noted climate contrarian Joseph Kunc went to bat for Rapp, urging outright dismissal of the complaint, and enlisting Edward Wegman’s support. Kunc had been involved in the anti-science petition kerfuffle at the American Physical Society, ably exposed by John Mashey. (Astonishingly the standoff continues, as SERC continues to list Rapp as “participating faculty”, while showing Rapp’s private email along with a phone number in a different area code from USC’s location).</div><div>
</div><div>Here is Wegman’s reply to Kunc (all the emails and Mashey’s commentary are covered in SIGMU, p. 11-15):</div><div>
</div><div>Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 09:23:19 -0400</div><div>Subject: Re: Question from Prof. Kunc</div><div>From: [WEGMAN EMAIL (NOT AT GMU)]</div><div>To: [KUNC EMAIL]</div><div>
</div><div>Dear Dr. Kunc,</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>The web blog deepclimate.org is, in my opinion, a totally unsavory operation. They have developed conspiracy theories and have consistently made charges of plagiarism not only against Dr. Rapp, but against me and my colleagues in our report to Congress. </b>They have never spoken with me and have jumped to wild conclusions that have nothing to do with reality. <b>Interestingly enough, they have posted copyrighted material from my website on theirs without acknowledgement. </b>What is even worse is that they hide behind anonymity. It is my opinion that Dr. Rapp has not plagiarized anything and I hold him harmless.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> This web blog seems to have been developed in retaliation for the enquiries associated with the climategate email releases and the obvious misconduct made clear by those email releases.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Ed Wegman</div><div>
</div><div>As noted before, we have here the supreme irony of Wegman’s dismissal of ever-mounting evidence of misconduct as “wild conclusions”, while blithely charging “obvious” (yet utterly vague) misconduct on the part of climate scientists. And, as I mentioned just a couple of days ago<b>, I’ve been blogging regularly on climate science disinformation since early 2009, and started the blog back in 2008.</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The copyright comment was somewhat mystifying to me, until Google led me to this statement from the home page of George Mason University’s statistics website:</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This page and all pages on this server (www.galaxy.gmu.edu) are copyright (c) 1996-2010 Edward J. Wegman and the Center for Computational Data Science, George Mason University.</span></div><div>
</div><div>Oh, I see: “Le centre, c’est moi”. So Wegman may have in mind Yasmin Said’s 2007 presentation that told the inconvenient truth about Barton staffer Peter Spencer’s hands on involvement in the Wegman et al report – a presentation that mysteriously disappeared from GMU’s website the same week that the GMU inquiry committee finally met for the first time.</div><div>
</div><div>As for Wegman holding Rapp harmless, neither one of this hapless pair seems to realize that copying something without attribution does not confer the right to let someone else copy it too. Quite the opposite, in fact. Not only that, but the case against Rapp includes far more than just the material appropriated from Bradley via Wegman. My cursory examination showed a large swathe taken from the Oak Ridge Laboratory web site and even careful removal of several Bradley citations from a Willie Soon block quote. (Perhaps Rapp could contact Soon to get his blessing as well). Even Rapp has allowed that this supposed inadvertant copying without attribution may have happened “10 times, or 20”. Then again, I only looked at part of Chapter 1.</div><div>
</div><div>At any rate, here is the second email a week later, this time in response to Rapp himself. <b>Wegman allows that the “zealots” have also targeted him with a plagiarism complaint, just like Rapp.</b></div><div>
</div><div>From: Edward Wegman</div><div>Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:36:10 -0400</div><div>To: Donald Rapp</div><div>Subject: Re: Charges of Plagiarism by the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Climategate Folks</span></div><div>
</div><div>Dear Dr. Rapp,</div><div>
</div><div>Thank you for your recent email. It is at least some comfort to know that the zealots aren’t targeting me alone. My Dean and Vice President for Research have asked my not to comment until the charges leveled against me have been resolved. However, the official definition of plagiarism involves copying the ideas or words of someone else and presenting them as your own. Of course, in the so-called Wegman report, we make it clear that we were not trying to represent ourselves as the inventors of paleoclimate reconstruction via tree rings as Bradley implies. </div><div>
</div><div>Indeed, we explicitly say that these materials were included so as to give the Congressional audience a balanced picture of the area.<b> The deepclimate website is full of crackpot conspiracy theories. I avoid reading it in order to keep a semblance of normalcy.</b> I believe the GMU inquiry will vindicate me and my co-authors. (Rice University has already concluded that the charges against David Scott have no merit.) In any case, I have been in touch with counsel and subsequent to the GMU resolution, perhaps we can meet and decide further actions. <b>I do agree that this is a shabby attempt at a smear campaign that attempts to deflect scrutiny from the real misconduct revealed by the climategate emails.</b></div><div>
</div><div>All the best,</div><div>Ed Wegman</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Once again, Wegman appears to misunderstand the concept of plagiarism. Interestingly, though, at this point Wegman didn’t acknowledge the obvious copying of social network analysis material in the Wegman report and the follow up Said et al. He rectified that later by expanding the list of fields he was not claiming to have invented:</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>… we have never intended that our Congressional testimony was intended to take intellectual credit for any aspect of paleoclimate reconstruction science or for any original research aspect of social network analysis.</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>Wegman also took comfort from the quick exoneration of co-author Scott, while neglecting to mention that it came only after Wegman himself assumed responsibility for the sections forming the basis for Bradley’s complaint.</b></div><div>
</div><div>I do wonder, though, whether Wegman still wants to meet with “loose lips” Rapp and “decide further actions”, despite all they have in common. After all, even before this latest batch of revelations, <b>Rapp had already aired various private statements from Wegman at ClimateAudit and WattsUpWithThat.</b> With ever so discreet friends like that, who needs enemies?</div></div><div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">climategate:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2010/03/17/crescendo-climategate-cacophony/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.desmog.com/2010/03/17/crescendo-climategate-cacophony/</a> pointer fail</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/files/crescendo%20climategate%20cacophony%20v1%200.pdf"><font style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/files/crescendo%20climategate%20cacophony%20v1%200.pdf</font> </a>185 pp 2/22</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2010</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>John Mashey: Crescendo Climategate Cacophony</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">...de Freitas, Chris (New Zealand)</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">www.sges.auckland.ac.nz/the_school/our_people/defreitas_chris/index.shtm</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_de_Freitas</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Chris_de_Freitas</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">www.friendsofscience.org/index.php?id=3</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">web.archive.org/web/20030526163750/www.cspg.org/deFreitas_climate.pdf [DEF2002]</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">deepclimate.org/2009/12/02/in-the-beginning-friends-of-science-talisman-energy-and-the-de-freitas-broth</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ers Support from Talisman energy, possible involvement by others. Much below is due to DC.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Activities: Leipzig, HeartExp#1</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Organizations: FoS, ICSC, NZCSC, ICECAP, Lavoisier, Climate Research (journal).</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Bulletin of the Canadian Petroleum Geology published a de Freitas anti-science paper [DEF2002] via</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">an interesting process. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> The Editor, his Canadian geologist brother Tim had recused himself, but had paper</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">reviewed by Soon and Boehmer-Christiansen, contemporaneously with De Freitas reviewing a</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>badly-flawed paper by Soon and Baliunas [SOO2003] for the journal Climate Research. </b>De Freitas was</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">then an editor of that journal, whose publication of that paper eventually led to resignation of </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Editor-in-Chief Hans von Storch and about half other editors.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> All this was the impetus for some</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">complaints found in Climategate emails. (read DC‘s account). </span>At various times, Balling, Davis, De</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Freitas and Legates have been editors for Climate Research, but none currently.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for the original [DEF2002], it was described by Tim de Freitas, p27:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">www.cspg.org/volunteer/files/reports/2002-CSPG-Report-of-Activities.pdf (emboldening mine).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">People familiar with climate anti-science PR campaigns </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Those familiar with the general topic and primarily interested in recent discoveries about the Wegman Report (WR) can examine Figures 2.1 and 3.1 for context, then skip to §5, read it and Appendices A.10 and A.11, and selected parts of other Appendices. They should read posts of <b>Canadian blogger Deep Climate (DC</b>) to whom much is owed for unearthing key facts. However, the WR was just one tactic in a two-decades-long campaign, and the rest of the document collects much detail to let people follow any subset of threads they wish to explore. Some readers might be familiar with the organizations, tactics, and individuals of A.2, A.3, A.4 and A.7, but might consult A.6 for detailed maps of relationships among these...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2001 [GUT2009], pp.251-259 covers the back-history of the M&M connection, and its context within Fraser Institute efforts, ―its biggest coup.‖ <b>DC covered this in more detail in [DEE2010d</b>].</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2010.01 Reality strikes back, thanks to “Deep Climate” Canadian blogger ―Deep Climate‖</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> (DC) published clear evidence that Bradley‘s classic book [BRA199] was not only plagiarized in the WR, but was sometimes changed in ways to cast doubt on credibility of tree-ring research. This subject was very important to the whole issue, but the WP lacked that expertise, by at least one of the member‘s own words. See [DEE2009, DEE2009a, DEE2010, DEE2010a] or just check [DEE2009a, DEE2010a] for side-by-side comparisons. Exactly which combination of people copied and changed Bradley‘s text is unclear, but there are 6 obvious people to ask first. DC then unearthed a few more key facts. See A.10 for detailed notes on the purposeful, deceptive plagiarism, inclusion of ‖grey literature‖ references, and generally shoddy scholarship. DC later found evidence of additional substantial plagiarism in the social network material.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2007.09.07 Said gave a talk at GMU [SAI2007], analyzed in some detail in A.11. DC had already found the plagiarism and the P. Spencer connection, enough to cast serious doubts on any claim of ―independence‖, but then found this talk. It mentioned additional people, gave more insight into the WP worldview and confirmed a strong P.Spencer role. His hints helped me find it as well...</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">―Deep Climate‘s diligent sleuthing and posts on Canadian climate anti-science were critical. He found crucial facts and gave some good hints on where to look further. This document would not have happened without his work. I‘ve been accumulating information over the last few years, trying to understand the patterns and connections in data I already had. DC‘s work suddenly helped make much better sense of existing information, and helped me look in the right places for more.... </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wegman and Said leave Wiley journal and Said disappears from GMU</font></h1><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/07/13/wegman-and-said-leave-wiley-journal-and-said-disappears-from-gmu/" title="1:08 pm" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="entry-date" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">July 13, 2012</span></a> <span class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="meta-sep" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">|</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/07/13/wegman-and-said-leave-wiley-journal-and-said-disappears-from-gmu/#comments" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">27 Comments</a></span></font></div><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The saga of statistician turned climate science critic Edward Wegman and his protege Yasmin Said has taken yet another strange turn. The pair’s tenure as editors-in-chief at the Wiley journal they founded three years ago quietly came to an unceremonious end recently, while release of the hard-cover encyclopedia based on the journal also appears to have been delayed. Not only that, but it now seems that Yasmin Said’s stint as research assistant professor at George Mason University ended at the same time.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="more-4869" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CHANGES AT WIREs COMPUTATIONAL STATISTICS …</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://wires.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WiresJournal/wisId-WICS.html" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wiley Interdiscplinary Reviews – Computational Statistics (WIREs Comp Stat)</a></span> began in 2009 as one of a series Wiley interdiscplinary journals (the WIREs stable has now reached eleven strong and includes <span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WIREs Climate Change</span>). Although <span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WIRES Comp Stat</span> itself is completely unrelated to climate studies, the original trio of editors – Wegman, Said and Rice University statistician David Scott – had collaborated earlier on the highly controversial congressional report on paleoclimatology known as the <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/wegman-report/" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wegman Report</a>.</font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wegman and Said also penned two major overview articles for the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WIREs Comp Stat</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> journal. Last year, I documented extensive copy-and-paste scholarship </span><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/03/26/wegman-and-said-2011-dubious-scholarship-in-full-colour/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in <span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Color Theory and Design</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and, even more shocking, </span><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/10/04/said-and-wegman-2009-suboptimal-scholarship/" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in <span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Roadmap for Optimization</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, the featured article in the journal’s inaugural issue. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">That continued a <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/10/04/said-and-wegman-2009-suboptimal-scholarship/#conclusion" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">pattern of dubious scholarship</a> seen <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/wegman-report/" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in the Wegman Report itself</a>, as well as in a <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2010/04/22/wegman-and-saids-social-network-sources-more-dubious-scholarship/" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">followup paper on climate science social networks</a> that was <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/retraction-of-said-wegman-et-al-2008-part-1/" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">retracted</a>– <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/02/22/gmu-contradictory-decisions-on-wegman-plagiarism-in-csda-but-not-in-congressional-report/" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">twice</a>!</span></font></p><p style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wiley received complaints concerning both WIREs articles, and dealt with them in a most peculiar way: <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/03/16/wiley-coverup-complete-wegman-and-said-redo-hides-plagiarism-and-errors/" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wegman and Said were allowed (or allowed themselves) a complete “do over” of each article in turn</a>. Dozens of citations were added, while all traces of <a href="https://deepclimate.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/said-wegman-2009-suboptimal-scholarship-v12.pdf" style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">previously evident copy-and-paste</a> were scrubbed away.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Here’s a small sample comparing a section on linear programming in the original version of</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Roadmap</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to </span><a href="http://www.usna.edu/Users/weapsys/avramov/Compressed%20sensing%20tutorial/LP.pdf" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tom Ferguson’s <span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Linear Programming: A Concise Introduction</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, with the large swathe of identical wording highlighted in cyan, and trivial differences in yellow .</span></font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div id="post-4869" class="post-4869 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-climate-science-disinformation tag-david-scott tag-edward-wegman tag-george-mason-umiversity tag-wiley tag-wires-computational-statistics tag-yasmin-said" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " bitstream="Bitstream" charter="Charter" serif="serif" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color"><h2 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizeLegibility" font-size="font-size" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" line-height="line-height"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/07/13/wegman-and-said-leave-wiley-journal-and-said-disappears-from-gmu/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wegman and Said leave Wiley journal and Said disappears from GMU</font></a></h2><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-stretch="font-stretch" normal="normal" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/07/13/wegman-and-said-leave-wiley-journal-and-said-disappears-from-gmu/" title="1:08 pm" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="entry-date" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">July 13, 2012</span></a> <span class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="meta-sep" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">|</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/07/13/wegman-and-said-leave-wiley-journal-and-said-disappears-from-gmu/#comments" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">27 comments</a></span></font></div><div class="entry-summary" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The saga of statistician turned climate science critic Edward Wegman and his protege Yasmin Said has taken yet another strange turn. The pair’s tenure as editors-in-chief at the Wiley journal they founded three years ago quietly came to an unceremonious … <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/07/13/wegman-and-said-leave-wiley-journal-and-said-disappears-from-gmu/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">→</span></a></font></p></div><div class="entry-info" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; position: relative;"><p class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/07/13/wegman-and-said-leave-wiley-journal-and-said-disappears-from-gmu/#comments" style="border: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">67 comments</a></span></font></div><div class="entry-summary" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I had thought the saga of climate science critic Edward Wegman and the various allegations of misconduct in his recent work could not possibly get any more bizarre, especially in the wake of manifestly contradictory findings in two recently concluded … <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/03/16/wiley-coverup-complete-wegman-and-said-redo-hides-plagiarism-and-errors/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="border: 0px; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="entry-info-prep entry-info-prep-cat-links" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted in</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/category/climate-science-disinformation/" rel="category tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate science disinformation</a></font></p><p class="tag-links" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="entry-info-prep entry-info-prep-tag-links" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tagged</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/david-scott-wegman-report/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">David Scott. Wegman report</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/edward-wegman/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edward Wegman</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/wires-comp-stat/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WIREs Comp Stat</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/yasmin-said/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yasmin Said</a></font></p></div></div><div id="post-4400" class="post-4400 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-climate-science-disinformation tag-dan-vergano tag-edward-wegman tag-george-mason-university tag-hockey-stick tag-yasmin-said" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " bitstream="Bitstream" charter="Charter" serif="serif" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color"><h2 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizeLegibility" font-size="font-size" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" line-height="line-height"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/02/22/gmu-contradictory-decisions-on-wegman-plagiarism-in-csda-but-not-in-congressional-report/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">GMU contradictory decisions on Wegman: Plagiarism in CSDA, but not in 2006 congressional report</font></a></h2><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-stretch="font-stretch" normal="normal" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/02/22/gmu-contradictory-decisions-on-wegman-plagiarism-in-csda-but-not-in-congressional-report/" title="10:46 pm" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="entry-date" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 22, 2012</span></a> <span class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="meta-sep" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">|</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/02/22/gmu-contradictory-decisions-on-wegman-plagiarism-in-csda-but-not-in-congressional-report/#comments" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">94 comments</a></span></font></div><div class="entry-summary" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Updates, Feb. 23-24: I have added extensive discussion “below the fold”, starting with the section entitled GMU Process. The summary has been updated with additional links to side-by-side comparisons to enable readers to make their own judgments.] Dan Vergano of USA … <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/02/22/gmu-contradictory-decisions-on-wegman-plagiarism-in-csda-but-not-in-congressional-report/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">→</span></a></font></p></div><div class="entry-info" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; position: relative;"><p class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2012/02/22/gmu-contradictory-decisions-on-wegman-plagiarism-in-csda-but-not-in-congressional-report/#comments" style="border: 0px; 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margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="entry-info-prep entry-info-prep-tag-links" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tagged</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/dan-vergano/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dan Vergano</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/edward-wegman/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edward Wegman</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/george-mason-university/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">George Mason University</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/hockey-stick/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Said and Wegman 2009: Suboptimal Scholarship</font></a></h2><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-stretch="font-stretch" normal="normal" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/10/04/said-and-wegman-2009-suboptimal-scholarship/" title="10:33 pm" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="entry-date" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">October 4, 2011</span></a> <span class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="meta-sep" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">|</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/10/04/said-and-wegman-2009-suboptimal-scholarship/#comments" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">38 comments</a></span></font></div><div class="entry-summary" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today I present an analysis of a 2009 article by Yasmin Said and Edward Wegman of George Mason University. “Roadmap for Optimization” was published in the inaugural edition of WIREs Comp Stats, one of a new family of Wiley publications … <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/10/04/said-and-wegman-2009-suboptimal-scholarship/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">→</span></a></font></p></div><div class="entry-info" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate science disinformation</a></font></p><p class="tag-links" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="entry-info-prep entry-info-prep-tag-links" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tagged</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/edward-wegman/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edward Wegman</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/george-mason-university/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">George Mason University</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/wiley/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wiley</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/wires/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WIREs</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/yasmin-said/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yasmin Said</a></font></p></div></div><div id="post-3500" class="post-3500 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-climate-science-disinformation tag-computational-statistics-and-data-analysis tag-dan-vergano tag-edward-wegman tag-usa-today tag-yasmin-said" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " bitstream="Bitstream" charter="Charter" serif="serif" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color"><h2 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizeLegibility" font-size="font-size" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" line-height="line-height"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/16/retraction-of-said-wegman-et-al-2008-part-2/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Retraction of Said, Wegman et al 2008, part 2</font></a></h2><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-stretch="font-stretch" normal="normal" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/16/retraction-of-said-wegman-et-al-2008-part-2/" title="11:05 am" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="entry-date" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">May 16, 2011</span></a> <span class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="meta-sep" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">|</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/16/retraction-of-said-wegman-et-al-2008-part-2/#comments" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">91 comments</a></span></font></div><div class="entry-summary" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Early climate contrarian reactions to the retraction of Said, Wegman et al 2008 have grasped at straws, holding that this does not affect the findings of the paper and the earlier Wegman report alleging inadequate peer review in climate science. … <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/16/retraction-of-said-wegman-et-al-2008-part-2/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="border: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dan Vergano</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/edward-wegman/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edward Wegman</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/usa-today/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">USA Today</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/yasmin-said/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yasmin Said</a></font></p></div></div><div id="post-3299" class="post-3299 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-climate-science-disinformation tag-edward-wegman tag-george-mason-university tag-yasmin-said" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " bitstream="Bitstream" charter="Charter" serif="serif" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color"><h2 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizeLegibility" font-size="font-size" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" line-height="line-height"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/retraction-of-said-wegman-et-al-2008-part-1/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Retraction of Said, Wegman et al 2008, part 1</font></a></h2><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-stretch="font-stretch" normal="normal" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/retraction-of-said-wegman-et-al-2008-part-1/" title="11:11 pm" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="entry-date" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">May 15, 2011</span></a> <span class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="meta-sep" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">|</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/retraction-of-said-wegman-et-al-2008-part-1/#comments" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">91 comments</a></span></font></div><div class="entry-summary" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s been a long time coming, but there has now been an official finding in at least one of the complaints concerning the dubious scholarship of GMU professors Edward Wegman and Yasmin Said. According to Dan Vergano of USA Today, … <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/retraction-of-said-wegman-et-al-2008-part-1/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">→</span></a></font></p></div><div class="entry-info" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; position: relative;"><p class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/retraction-of-said-wegman-et-al-2008-part-1/#comments" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: -2px 1px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tagged</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/edward-wegman/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edward Wegman</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/george-mason-university/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">George Mason University</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/yasmin-said/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yasmin Said</a></font></p></div></div><div id="post-3433" class="post-3433 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-climate-science-disinformation tag-eward-wegman tag-wires-computational-statistics tag-yasmin-said" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " bitstream="Bitstream" charter="Charter" serif="serif" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color"><h2 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizeLegibility" font-size="font-size" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" line-height="line-height"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/wegman-and-said-2011-part-2/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wegman and Said 2011, part 2</font></a></h2><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-stretch="font-stretch" normal="normal" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/wegman-and-said-2011-part-2/" title="5:17 pm" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="entry-date" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">May 15, 2011</span></a> <span class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="meta-sep" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">|</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/wegman-and-said-2011-part-2/#comments" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11 comments</a></span></font></div><div class="entry-summary" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I continue the previous discussion of unacknowledged antecedents in Color Theory and Design by Wegman and Said (WIREs Computational Statistics, 2011), and examine the second half of the article in detail. There is an excessive (and partially unattributed) reliance on … <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/wegman-and-said-2011-part-2/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">→</span></a></font></p></div><div class="entry-info" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; position: relative;"><p class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/05/15/wegman-and-said-2011-part-2/#comments" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: -2px 1px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 2px 10px; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; float: right; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">11 Comments</font></a></p><p class="cat-links" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="entry-info-prep entry-info-prep-cat-links" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted in</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/category/climate-science-disinformation/" rel="category tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Climate science disinformation</a></font></p><p class="tag-links" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="entry-info-prep entry-info-prep-tag-links" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tagged</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/eward-wegman/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Eward Wegman</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/wires-computational-statistics/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WIREs Computational Statistics</a>, <a href="https://deepclimate.org/tag/yasmin-said/" rel="tag" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yasmin Said</a></font></p></div></div><div id="post-3228" class="post-3228 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-climate-science-disinformation tag-edward-wegman tag-george-mason-university tag-jeffrey-solka tag-yasmin-said" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, " bitstream="Bitstream" charter="Charter" serif="serif" margin="margin" px="px" em="em" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-size="font-size" background-color="background-color"><h2 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-rendering="text-rendering" optimizelegibility="optimizeLegibility" font-size="font-size" letter-spacing="letter-spacing" line-height="line-height"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/03/26/wegman-and-said-2011-dubious-scholarship-in-full-colour/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wegman and Said 2011: Yet More Dubious Scholarship in Full Colour, part 1</font></a></h2><div class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; font-family: " helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" nimbus="Nimbus" sans="Sans" l="L" sans-serif="sans-serif" margin="margin" px="px" outline="outline" padding="padding" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-stretch="font-stretch" normal="normal" font-size="font-size" line-height="line-height"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted on</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/03/26/wegman-and-said-2011-dubious-scholarship-in-full-colour/" title="2:38 pm" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="entry-date" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 26, 2011</span></a> <span class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="meta-sep" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">|</span> <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/03/26/wegman-and-said-2011-dubious-scholarship-in-full-colour/#comments" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">44 comments</a></span></font></div><div class="entry-summary" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0.85em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Previous posts have examined scholarship issues in the Wegman Report and Wegman et al’s core flawed statistical analysis of the “hockey stick” graph. Now I show that a recent WIREs Computational Statistics overview article on colour theory and design by … <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/03/26/wegman-and-said-2011-dubious-scholarship-in-full-colour/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">→</span></a></font></p></div><div class="entry-info" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both; position: relative;"><p class="comments-link" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/03/26/wegman-and-said-2011-dubious-scholarship-in-full-colour/#comments" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">John Mashey has released an updated version of Strange Investigations at George Mason University [SIGMU PDF at DeSmogBlog], which tells the story of GMU’s slow-as-molasses misconduct inquiry of Edward Wegman through various email exchanges between paleoclimatologist Raymond Bradley and GMU. … <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2011/01/06/wegman-on-deep-climate/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">→</span></a></font></p></div><div class="entry-info" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Deep Climate John Mashey has suggested a new thread for general talk about various aspects of the Wegman Report, and I’m happy to oblige. Of course, the immediately preceding Replication and Due Diligence, Wegman Style will remain open for … <a href="https://deepclimate.org/2010/12/02/wegman-et-al-miscellany/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">→</span></a></font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div>