2 thoughts on “The doctored science of global warming”
Stan Young, you have it right.
The data collector who expects a certain result is almost always susceptible to expectation bias, and may ignore or alter data that would contradict the favorite hypothesis. The best tests of any theory are data sets gathered by *independent* investigators. This is especially true when the people who are gathering the data with the intent of disproving the hypothesis accumulate data that vindicates it, as happened repeatedly with tests of GR.
We need to recognize that both data sets and analysis can be shaped to a desired result. It makes sense to separate the collecting and building of important data sets from the analysis of said data sets.
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Stan Young, you have it right.
The data collector who expects a certain result is almost always susceptible to expectation bias, and may ignore or alter data that would contradict the favorite hypothesis. The best tests of any theory are data sets gathered by *independent* investigators. This is especially true when the people who are gathering the data with the intent of disproving the hypothesis accumulate data that vindicates it, as happened repeatedly with tests of GR.
We need to recognize that both data sets and analysis can be shaped to a desired result. It makes sense to separate the collecting and building of important data sets from the analysis of said data sets.