The Failure of Peer Review in Climate Science
This episode of Climate Change Roundtable titled, “The failure of peer review: Climate is Beholden to Bullying and Bad Decisions” delves into the shadowy and competitive world of climate journal publications.
In this episode, our host, Anthony Watts, and weekly panelists, Dr. Sterling Burnett and Linnea Lueken, will delve into the not-so-scientific ways that science gets published (or retracted) that have come to light in the past two weeks.
We’ll discuss Dr. Robert T. Brown’s stunning admission that he held back certain data and analysis in order to ensure his climate paper got published by Nature. We’ll also look at the “climategate gang” and how they have bullied another journal to retract a paper they don’t like, which had already passed peer review. Now, new evidence has emerged of even more bullying.
Anthony WattsAnthony Watts is a senior fellow for environment and climate at The Heartland Institute.
H. Sterling BurnettH. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy and the managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
Linnea LuekenLinnea Lueken is a Research Fellow with the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy.