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Peer Review as Skepticism in Practice Peer Review as Skepticism in Practice
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Skepticism Meets the Internet Age Skepticism Meets the Internet Age
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It’s the Anomalies, Stupid It’s the Anomalies, Stupid
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Science and the Media Collide Science and the Media Collide
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The IPCC and the Path of Science The IPCC and the Path of Science
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Breaking of Paradigms Breaking of Paradigms
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The Galileo Gambit The Galileo Gambit
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Abstract
In this chapter, the author discusses the role of skepticism in science, and in particular the issue of climate change. He first considers how skepticism is exercised through peer review and goes on to discuss the use of the Internet by amateur pseudo-skeptics, specialty public relations firms, and members of the corporate media who share their ideological views, to propagate untruths and innuendo when reporting findings in climate science and other fields of policy-relevant science. He then explains how science advances through scientists trying to understand the anomalies, and how interest in understanding such anomalies drove his own research that resulted in the hockey stick. He also notes the inconsistency between the here-and-now incentive that drives popular media, and the slower, more deliberate manner in which science advances, along with the importance of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports for evaluating the state of scientific understanding of climate change. Finally, he describes the “Galileo gambit” employed by climate change deniers and contrarians.
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