Bishop Hill Lew two in doo-doo
Apr 3, 2013 Climate: Sceptics Journals As readers no doubt know, a few days ago, Stephan Lewandowsky's "Conspiricy Ideation" paper was removed from the publisher's website without explanation. Now, perhaps in response to criticism from the respected Retraction Watch site, that explanation has appeared:
This article, first published by Frontiers on 18 March 2013, has been the subject of complaints. Given the nature of some of these complaints, Frontiers has provisionally removed the link to the article while these issues are investigated, which is being done as swiftly as possible and which Frontiers management considers the most responsible course of action. The article has not been retracted or withdrawn. Further information will be provided as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
Reader Comments (43)
The Retraction Watch site now has an update.
They note that in fact the paper was first published on Feb 5, not March 18.
Who said we had any patience? Or is expressing impatience itself proof of conspiracy ideation? 'Course it is. I'm a fool to myself. I'll be on the naughty step if anyone needs me.
Lew paper flushed down the pan.
Lol Phillip. But we're assured it has not been retracted or withdrawn. I wonder who's volunteering to fish it out from beyond the U bend?
Yeah gee what are we allowed to speculate on? ;)
They are making a meal of it surely. I guess there must be some real skilful academic turd polishing going in the background that is beyond the ken of mere laymen. ;)
How long can it take for a renaming of the column in the supplementary material to
Excerpts Showing Conspiracy Ideation from Deniers Excluding Climate Scientists We Like who are Not Judith Curry and May Have a Point
If it is retracted then it is a conspiracy.
If it is not retracted then it is a conspiracy.
Tweedles *2...very amusing!
I hope somebody has issued a news release to their press list giving a heads up on the new "on hold" status just in case any problems are confirmed.
"....there must be some real skilful academic turd polishing..."
You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.
slightly off topic, but some crazy hackers printed Al gore's credit report online: www.exposed.re. I'm not a finance guy, seems like Gore has a lot of ongoing mortgages (buying beachfront properties?) and uses a lot of joint accounts. Worth a look? Maybe someone with a financial background can make more sense of the report.
There are other famous people hacked as well.
'The article has not been retracted or withdrawn'
Indeed not. It has been 'disappeared'
But whatever poncy language they dress it up in, it all amounts to the same thing.
It ain't there no more. It has joined the choir invisible. It is pushing up the daisies. It has expired and returned (unmourned) to its maker. It is demised.
It is an ex-paper.
..and though it ill-behoves an Englishmanto intrude in private Australian grief (how's the cricket team going guys?), has anyone heard from dear Joelle Gergis recently?
Didn't she have a little local difficulty recently? Something to do with hockey sticks? Seems to be catching......
How about a few kind words for a science mag publisher who actually pays attention to complaints about fraudulent research? Would that other science publications do the same.
Frontiers replied promptly to my complaint, which was sent just before the paper was taken down for the second time. They're forwarding it to the authors. A half an hour later I received a letter from the editor of Psychological Science saying that they too were forwarding my complaint about the first paper to Lewandowsky.
Don't you worry about the cricket Latimer. You blokes are in for a rude shock. We have a secret weapon
Please observe the exquisite cover drive with follow through and hold. Neville Cardus would have written books about. John Arlott would have given up wine to see it. Be afraid, be very, very afraid.
Darn it Grant, Lil was meant to be our secret weapon. Now the Poms will be scouring child-care centres to find her pint-sized peer.
Still, it might mean less on-field tantrums during the next Test.
Richard Drake & Phil Bratby
Your are both really plumbing the depths now.
But has she done her homework?
*O/T but with my moniker I am allowed it once in a while...
"Provisionally removed the link".
I suspect that this is face-saving speak for "it is a crock, our bad for not spotting it and we will hope it dies
a silent death, unnoticed".
@grant b
I remember seeing the original Lillee (Dennis K of that ilk) and - with Jeff Thomson - he was a truly formidable fast bowler. Right up there with 'Whispering Death' Holding and Malcolm Marshall
Your new secret weapon...not so much. But at least she's not called Kim and doesn't burst into tears at the drop of hat......
pesadia: you can pipe down and all :)
GrantB: Arlott giving up wine??!! Wasn't it he who came out with: "The batsman's Holding the bowler's Willy"?
Climate Audit's latest post, as well as marking Tom Curtis as behaving with considerable integrity, also pulls the rug from under Lew's feet as far as his purported test audience are concerned.
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
Other way round Snotrocket. The bowler was Holding. But an all-time classic of Test Match Special.
@snotrocket
Brian Johnston.
John Arlott would never ever have been so vulgar. He loved fine language too much. Don't forget that he was a poetry producer at the BBC. But you're right about wine...he'd never give that up.
Drake's right about who was bowling, who batting. But in fact it was Brian Johnston, not Arlott, who came out with the immortal line, at the Oval in 1976, in the unlikely event anyone is interested.
Lew paper......fold or scrunch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dBYzgW7xjk
Latimer, GrantB:
If she can keep that cover drive on the ground, a la Don Bradman, she is a definite threat. For a moment I thought you were going to include some of the pin-up quality lovelies from the Australian Women's Team. They would certainly be a welcome distraction during a 5 day Test Match.
Richard Drake
Ballcocks:)
Johnners, of course. My father (gifted batsman and MCC stalwart who knew all these guys, one way or the other) will be rolling in his grave, hopefully with laughter.
Wasn't it Aggers who said the batsman knocked the bails off because he couldn't get his leg over. Brian Johnston couldn't speak because nobody in the commentary box could stop laughing?
I thought it was "legover before wicket".
Phillip Bratby
A recording of Aggers and Johners here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8157299/Test-Match-Specials-greatest-gaffe-the-Leg-Over.html
the doo just got much deeper
http://climateaudit.org/2013/04/03/tom-curtis-writes/
The Lew Krew SHOULD have looked in to why the catastrophiliacs are so irrational when it comes to Mann Made Global Warming (tm) and how they can never answer a question with a straight answer and invent and project their insecurities on anyone who dates question their religion.
That would have been far more insightful than the bag of turds they published and labelled as science!!!
Mailman
Lewanclownsky has done a service
I haven't laughed so much since the release of Monty Python's Life of Brian
I remember a brilliant Arlott comment as Lillee went back to his mark on his early very long run up. He said "unlike the lilies of the field, he toils, even if he does not spin". And his first book was a book of poetry. Sadly missed.
Latimer -ah yes, the Kim Hughes teary episode. I remember it well, not least because some of my university colleages (I know who you are) pinned screaming Sun etc poster headlines to my door the next day.
Mind you, Dame Edna put it down to a tight jock strap rather than anything that actually happened on the field.
Wicket tears sticky,
Juggernaut bells all alarm,
For the centuries.
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What Lysenko spawned?
Poor Lewandowsky. He must think there is some sort of conspiracy against him.
An idiot at the Wash Post cites Lew as good science
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/04/12/the-insiders-climate-change-and-mitch-mcconnell/