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| | A little over a year ago I noticed a call from the journal Environmental Communication for a special issue of articles on"Climate change communication and the internet". For some time I had been thinking vaguely about writing something about the interesting Reader Background thread at Jeff Condon's Air Vent blog, so I wrote a paper...
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| | The paper, Cook et al. (2013) ' Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature ' searched the Web ...
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| | Arguably, computers and faster communication systems have changed the world more than any other technology. Yet there have been many scientific failures along the way, some prominent, many minor, and a widening gap between aspirations and reality. This article discusses the problem of pseudoscience in computer science. I discuss Richard Feynman's coined term "cargo cult science," as he said: "Everywhere I see computer scientists that look like they are working on the right thing, but the thing actually doesn't work." I offer guidance on how to stay away of this dangerous practice, from a scientific standpoint.
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| [Note: This article was significantly updated August 5th, 2010. Therefore, many comments became obsolete, or at least proved their worth, by encouraging an update] If there's one area that often seems to catch the imagination of many who call themselves "climate skeptics", it's the idea that CO2 at its low levels of concentration in the...