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If Lady Chatterleyâs Lover, then â¦
If Lady Chatterleyâs Lover, then ⦠:The first paragraph of Sheila Jasanoffâs book, The Fifth Branch, startsâScientific advisory committees occupy a curiously sheltered position in the landscape of American regulatory politics. In an era of bitter ideological confrontations, their role in policymaking has gone largely unobserved and unchallenged. â¦â (1990, The Fifth Branch, Chapter 1, Rationalizing Politics; 2009 Interview with Professor Jasanoff)The ...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=154">Read More</a>
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Just News and Muses
Just News and Muses :Itâs been very busy, and I have had some issues of keeping up, not to mention upkeep. In the climate world there has been a lot going on. It was two weeks ago, Valentines, when there was a curious BBC interview of Phil Jones. The interview advertised that it featured questions gathered from âclimate skeptics.â Of course, the interview is part of the continuing waterfall from the published emails from the Climate Research Unit. The ...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=153">Read More</a>
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Strength in Many Peers
Strength in Many Peers :(This article is about climate science, but, again, you have to make it through the beginning.)Last week an article that linked autism and measles vaccinations was retracted by the medical journal, The Lancet. (Story in LA Times, Story in San Francisco Chronicle, Retraction in The Lancet) The retraction is very short. The newspaper articles report that many of the co-authors of the paper had stated that the study was flawed. This paper h...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=152">Read More</a>
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Trust, but Verify
Trust, but Verify (AMS-2): (This article is about climate science, but you have to make it through the beginning.)In the previous blog I wrote about the talk at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting by Jim Rogers the CEO of of Duke Energy. I stated that often when I talk positively about the roles of corporations in addressing climate change, mistrust is one of the first things I hear about. (I am perpetually naïve.) The United States is a cu...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=151">Read More</a>
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Duke of Climate (AMS-1)
Duke of Climate (AMS-1)Did those storms hit California? The ones that those models predicted last week? Havenât had time to watch the weather, but people tell me there are rain delays in Phoenix. Iâve been at the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting in Atlanta. Itâs been a while since I have been to a âscienceâ meeting, and this meeting was excellent. It had a far more vital feeling than the last AMS meeting I was at. The next few bl...<br /><a href="http://www.wunderground.com/blog/RickyRood/comment.html?entrynum=150">Read More</a>
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