The Default Interpretation
I was reading the comments at Coyote Blog since I just finished a bit about a climate article they had put up and I came across this little gem by dearieme posted Aug 9, 2007 12:15:51 PM:
"Government scientists ..refuse to publicly release their temperature adjustment algorithms or software": the default interpretation of that is that they are crooks.It seems like a lot of people are coming to that conclusion.
Cross Posted at Classical Values and at The Astute Bloggers
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Science requires peer review of both data and methods, especially when their's no possibility repeating an experiment.
Therefore they are not engaged in science, and their government funding (assuming it was for science) was improperly given.
At a minimum, they should be barred from federal funding until the publish their complete methodolagy, including software.
At a minimum, they should be barred from federal funding until the publish their complete methodolagy, including software.
Yes. But your remedy falls a bit short when "they" are the government.
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