John Mashey

John Mashey analyses emails from Wegman and Azen and yes, Wegman's defence against plagiarism charges is to say that he and his students plagiarized from Denise Reeves. Multiple times. Andrew Gelman says it best: The major conclusions [of the plagiarised paper] are that there are different styles of research collaboration; the methodological flaws are that the entire data analysis is based on four snippets of the collaboration network. There's no evidence or even argument that you can generalize from these four graphs to the general population, nor is there any evidence or justification of…

Via Deep Climate, John Mashey's seminar on "The Machinery of Climate Anti-Science" is being streamed live here. It starts two hours from now, 7:30 PDT. The battle of truth versus disinformation is nowhere better demonstrated than in the distortion of climate science. More than 97 percent of practicing climate scientists support the fact that global warming is happening and caused by humans, yet the public often thinks that scientists are seriously divided on this issue. In this special public lecture, Silicon Valley computer scientist and technology expert Dr. John Mashey will expose the…

John Mashey's Amazon review of Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming by James Hoggan. Anti-Science and Who Does It Anti-science (or agnotology), seeks to cover-up or obscure science considered inconvenient, or at least create doubt in the minds of public and decision-makers. It seeks to replace knowledge with ignorance, and has no resemblance to normal arguments within science, by scientists. Modern anti-science is most skilfully executed by a relatively small subset of lobbyists and PR agencies. Some of the most effective are actually "think tanks". They have public identities…

This is a guest post from John Mashey. If there isn't some hidden gotcha (there might be, I'm no expert), it's one of the best single things I've heard. It's especially good for places with a lot of coal, who use concrete, who are near the ocean, and might have use for softer water for desalination. 1) Calera is a just-barely-out-of-stealth, but very impressive startup ... It already has 65 people and a pilot plant at Moss Landing, CA just South of the Dynergy gas plant there. [CA doesn't have any coal plants handy, they'd be better for this, actually.] GooglelEarth: 36deg48'10.29"N,…

It seems like only yesterday we got to 10,000 comments and now John Mashey has posted the 50,000th comment, with more content than most blog posts. And here's his acceptance speech: Thanks to all. I always hoped my efforts would be rewarded, although I never expected this! CafePress is HQ'd about 20 miles away, although who knows, the T-shirt might come from China for all I know. There is at least hope that it's a short truck ride away. My forthcoming Deltoid T-shirt will take its proud place amongst some other rare T-shirts I own: -- SGI "Building a better dinosaur" Jurassic Park dino,…