General Anaesthetic Taking the edge off.

Number Crunchers

Steve Levitt asks:

Is it surprising that scientists would try to keep work that disagrees with their findings out of journals?

Yes. Yes it is.

It’s also deeply depressing.

Luckily, the fuckers that work for the CRU don’t appear to be scientists. Rather, they deal in statistics and prediction (much the same as economists like Steve Levitt). So I suppose I’ll accept that these people shouldn’t be held to any standard of ethics or integrity.

December 3, 2009, by Jimmy B.
Category: economics environment | Tagged: bullshit statistics, ethics, making things up