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The world’s scientists on Michael E Mann…
A Disgrace to the Profession
Also from Stockade Books
A Disgrace to the Profession
Copyright
Epigraph
Abbreviations used in the text
Contents
Introduction: CLIMATE OF FEAR
Prologue: A COLLOSAL MISTAKE
I. Mann is an island: TRUST ME, I’M A SCIENTIST
1. “Most scientists dismiss the hockey stick”
2. “Orwell’s Ministry of Information”
3. “the blade could not be reproduced”
4. “you are not a scientist”
5. “a disgrace to the profession”
6. “fraudulent”
7. “substantively discredited”
8. “the Emperor’s new clothes”
9. “Mann should be barred”
10. “if we mistakenly took the hockey stick seriously…”
II. Mann of the past: ONE TREE-RING TO RULE THEM ALL!
11. “Obvious drivel”
12. “contradicted the results of more than 100 previous studies”
13. “at best bad science”
14. “cannot be detected”
15. “at odds with Mann”
16. “a mistake”
17. “sh*tty”
18. “a sham”
19. “precip is the driver”
20. “the evidence is lacking in the data”
III. Mann of the present: THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS
21. “Sticking an apple on the end of a banana”
22. “you can’t mix and match”
23. “this is about icons, not science”
24. “the stick is broken”
25. “wow, headline-breaking results”
26. “how not to proceed”
27. “no statisticians”
28. “tree rings with a hockey stick dominate”
29. “a statistical technique they made up”
30. “a piece of dubious statistics”
IV. Mann of the hour: EMPIRE OF THE STICK
31. “The hockey stick was thoroughly trashed”
32. “common sense tells you to be a bit skeptic”
33. “passed without anyone having checked it”
34. “distorted too many people’s views”
35. “misrepresented the temperature record”
36. “an outlier”
37. “I fell for this stick”
38. “no reliable tropical data”
39. “they wanted to believe it”
40. “no longer valid”
V. Mann of integrity: THE ABOLITION OF UNCERTAINTY
41. “Dishonest”
42. “very dodgy ground”
43. “I am sick to death of Mann”
44. “cannot be defended”
45. “very sloppy”
46. “a devastating criticism”
47. “your job is not to prevent critics checking your work”
48. “criminals”
49. “the answer is no”
50. “not especially honest”
VI. Mannsplaining: THE CLIME SYNDICATE
51. “Hit on the head with a hockey stick”
52. “more important than scientific integrity”
53. “the final stage of corruption”
54. “brazen fraud”
55. “I was disturbed”
56. “we are not crooks”
57. “no way to do science”
58. “that’s a no-no”
59. “Mann should no longer participate”
60. “the greatest pseudoscientific fraud of my life”
VII. The Mann that got away: CASE CLOSED?
61. “Tends to bias the reconstruction”
62. “much the same misgivings”
63. “no close collaboration with statisticians”
64. “turning science on its head”
65. “inappropriate”
66. “misleading”
67. “overly simplified”
68. “I did delete the emails”
69. “not entirely truthful in a court case”
70. “not especially honest”
VIII. Mannspreading: SPAWN OF THE STICK
71. “Incorrect and inadequate”
72. “a can of worms”
73. “McIntyre criticism is valid”
74. “errors discovered”
75. “should not be used in any argument”
76. “the paper should be withdrawn”
77. “not statistically robust”
78. “scientific misconduct”
79. “excuse me while I puke”
80. “very misleading”
IX. Mann boobs: ONE-STICK PONY
81. “In error”
82. “just bad science”
83. “not reliable”
84. “improper and illogical”
85. “scientific forgery”
86. “I doubt it can be a mistake”
87. “temperatures exceeded those in the recent warm period”
88. “incorrect”
89. “erroneous”
90. “a crock of sh*t”
X. Mann o’ war: CAPTAIN CLIMATE BATTLES THE DENIERS
91. “Hardly does justice to the complexities”
92. “a completely rigged peer review system”
93. “I became the target”
94. “nothing more than a mathematical construct”
95. “‘denier’ should be dropped”
96. “call him ‘denier’?”
97. “a closed mind”
98. “borderline libel”
99. “a scurrilous bunch”
100. “a peaceful community has been transformed”
XI. Mann hole: STUCK WITH THE STICK
101. “Shouting louder so they must be right”
102. “very few agreed to the shape of the curve”
103. “a sensitive issue”
104. “the hockey stick should be de-emphasised”
105. “must not enter serious literature”
106. “should never have been singled out”
107. “rather opaque”
108. “this absence is peculiar”
109. “what the weather was like 1,000 years ago”
110. “the accentuation of one view…”
XII. Mann overboard: THE FALL OF THE STICK
111. “An embarrassment to the IPCC”
112. “totally discredited”
113. “it’s not science”
114. “lack of scientific rigor”
115. “a shoddy stick”
116. “the charlatan Michael Mann”
117. “how are they still experts?”
118. “struck off the lists of practitioners”
119. “yes, there’s no hockey stick”
120. “let Mann sink or swim on his own”
Postscript: THE CASE FOR MANN
i. “Distinguished, independent scientist”
ii. “junk science”
iii. “should be fired”
iv. “the instrumental record is clearly distinguished”
Volume II, coming soon
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