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Ed Reid's avatar

Climategate was not a historical event. It is an ongoing process.

"It ain't over 'till it's over."

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René Maçon's avatar

Anybody, publishing in peer-reviewed journals, knows that the whole process is based on a lot of irrationality and arbitrariness.

A correct mathematical derivation does not mean that a reviewer accepts the result. Empirical observations, which are significant, according to statistical conventions, are rejected by reviewers, because they do not like the potential political consequences.

Science has become a lottery. I have retired now, and I'm very happy that my income is no longer influenced by the result of peer-review processes...

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