The new 2008 study widely cited by global warming deniers were retracted probably no end to the contentious debate.
The paper, known as the Wegman report and published in the journal Computational Statistics and data analysis, was withdrawn because of serious defects, including instances of repeat discredited, claims alleged plagiarism, and a lack of prior to the publication peer reviewthe magazine said.
Problems with the Wegman study had known since last year, but it was only this week that editor of Stanley P. Azan retracted it.
The Wegman report was the product of research commissioned by two representatives of the United States, Joe Barton and Ed Whitfield, who has asked a panel of statisticians, led by Prof. Edward Wegman of George Mason University, to assess the validity of the evidence for global warmingwhich had been called a "hoax" by Republican Senator Jim Inhofe. The report concludes that the evidence for human-induced climate change was tainted and led many to question the validity of global warming.
In fact, are often interpreted the report as evidence that climatologists colluded to deceive the public and censor dissenting views.
The controversy over climate change has always been contentious and a tint with accusations of not only lack scientific, but also outright fraud and conspiracy. The Wegman report has played a role in these suspicions among the public and warming of spawning.
Retraction of the study follows the emails of "climategate" of 2009 were hacked on computers at East Anglia University, first climate research centre. Emails - widely touted at the time of their publication as documents "smoking gun" that proved climatologists had feigned data - proved nothing of the sort.
Conspiracy theorists combed through data of fraudulent research and simulate studies but found little. Several independent investigations are instances of sloppy record-keeping and conduct non-professional, but no evidence of any fraud or misrepresentation of climate data. Critics have suggested that the scientific investigations of compensation were themselves part of a larger cover-up to prevent the public of the truth.
A similar theme can be found in difficult plots. The research of Dr. Andrew Wakefield linking childhood vaccines to autism has been questioned (and his article of newspaper later retracted) supporters refused to accept that Wakefield had been poorly throughout and said instead that it was all part of a campaign to discredit him. [Vaccine & autism Timeline: how the truth took place]
It is a feature of conspiracy theories: proven as they essentially cannot be false because no evidence against them is itself considered as part of the conspiracy. It is likely that those who believe that global warming is a hoax see Wegman study politically motivated retraction.
Benjamin Radford is associate editor of the magazine Skeptical Inquirer science and author of media Mythmakers: how journalists, activists, and advertisers mislead us in error. Its Web site is www.RadfordBooks.com.
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