The Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting included a symposium session on the release of hacked e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. Given that we’ve had occasion to discuss ClimateGate here before, i thought I’d share my notes from this session. Symposium: The CRU E-mails: Perspectives from Philosophy of […]
Discuss the question of what counts (or should count) as accepted scientific practices without the annoying background noise of climate change denial.
Penn State’s inquiry committee reports on allegations against Michael Mann, laying the ground for an investigation that may have broad implications for the practice of science in academia.
It looks like climate scientists and Tiger Woods may be in a similar spot.
When the evidence available to you is limited, it’s probably better to draw the weak conclusion is supports rather than an overly strong one.
When you’re investigating charges that a scientist has seriously deviated from accepted practices for proposing, conducting, or reporting research, how do you establish what the accepted practices are? In the wake of ClimateGate, this was the task facing the Investigatory Committee at Penn State University investigating the allegation (which the earlier Inquiry Committee deemed worthy […]
The ethics investigation of Michael Mann turns on what counts as accepted practices for proposing, conducting, and reporting research. How does a committee establish what those accepted practices are?