[WikiEN-l] William Connelley no longer neutral contributor (Re: toJimbo)

Tue Nov 25 10:24:53 UTC 2003

Gareth Owen wrote:

>"Tim the Enchanter" <t-money at thehouse.ws> writes:
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>>I would say the answer to that is no.  You could go to a library and look up
>>GW and you would find numerous books on either side of the argument.  
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>Or you could look in scientific journalists.  You will find a great many
>scholarly papers supporting GW, and comparitively very few that do not.
>They may be wrong, but they're not really sharply divided.
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>Don't judge cutting edge science by what appears in the popular press.
>If you want to know what scientists are thinking, look in journals.
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Well, perhaps "comparatively few", but certainly not "none" or "almost 
none".  They've declined in number recently, but there are still a good 
number of "sceptical" papers being published.  There was one in Climate 
Research pushed just a few months ago (January 2003) by Soon and 
Baliunus that raised somewhat of a ruckus (abstract at 
http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/cr/v23/n2/p89-110.html, among other 
places).  Whether this paper or any others are accurate or not is 
another matter, but it is true that they're being published in 
mainstream peer-reviewed journals, by researchers at fairly prestigious 
institutions.

-Mark