Tactical Science
22 hours ago Kip Hansen
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen — 7 October 2024
If you don’t read Roger Pielke Jr.’s substack, The Honest Broker, you should. I do and I am a paid subscriber – not because I always agree with him on the topic of climate change (which I sometimes do) but because he is a honest hard working scientist on the policy front and one of the most effective public voices for climate skepticism and climate realism (even though I doubt that he would consider himself so.)
Here’s a quote from his recent effort “Weaponizing Peer Review”:
“The idealization of peer review as the arbiter of good science is problematic for many reasons, but one is that it downplays the possibility that bad science can appear in the peer reviewed literature and good science outside of those outlets.“
[ most quotes following are from Pielke Jr. there]
He comes to this following on Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, quoting them on the definition of Bad Science: [this quote not Pielke Jr.]
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/08/tactical-science/
