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Wegman and Said leave Wiley journal and Said disappears from GMU
The saga of statistician turned climate science critic Edward Wegman and his protege Yasmin Said has taken yet another strange turn. The pair’s tenure as editors-in-chief at the Wiley journal they founded three years ago quietly came to an unceremonious … Continue reading
Wiley cover-up: Complete Wegman and Said “redo” hides plagiarism and errors
I had thought the saga of climate science critic Edward Wegman and the various allegations of misconduct in his recent work could not possibly get any more bizarre, especially in the wake of manifestly contradictory findings in two recently concluded … Continue reading
GMU contradictory decisions on Wegman: Plagiarism in CSDA, but not in 2006 congressional report
[Updates, Feb. 23-24: I have added extensive discussion “below the fold”, starting with the section entitled GMU Process. The summary has been updated with additional links to side-by-side comparisons to enable readers to make their own judgments.] Dan Vergano of USA … Continue reading
Said and Wegman 2009: Suboptimal Scholarship
Today I present an analysis of a 2009 article by Yasmin Said and Edward Wegman of George Mason University. “Roadmap for Optimization” was published in the inaugural edition of WIREs Comp Stats, one of a new family of Wiley publications … Continue reading
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Retraction of Said, Wegman et al 2008, part 2
Early climate contrarian reactions to the retraction of Said, Wegman et al 2008 have grasped at straws, holding that this does not affect the findings of the paper and the earlier Wegman report alleging inadequate peer review in climate science. … Continue reading
Retraction of Said, Wegman et al 2008, part 1
It’s been a long time coming, but there has now been an official finding in at least one of the complaints concerning the dubious scholarship of GMU professors Edward Wegman and Yasmin Said. According to Dan Vergano of USA Today, … Continue reading
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Wegman and Said 2011, part 2
I continue the previous discussion of unacknowledged antecedents in Color Theory and Design by Wegman and Said (WIREs Computational Statistics, 2011), and examine the second half of the article in detail. There is an excessive (and partially unattributed) reliance on … Continue reading
Wegman and Said 2011: Yet More Dubious Scholarship in Full Colour, part 1
Previous posts have examined scholarship issues in the Wegman Report and Wegman et al’s core flawed statistical analysis of the “hockey stick” graph. Now I show that a recent WIREs Computational Statistics overview article on colour theory and design by … Continue reading
Wegman on Deep Climate (and “climategate”)
John Mashey has released an updated version of Strange Investigations at George Mason University [SIGMU PDF at DeSmogBlog], which tells the story of GMU’s slow-as-molasses misconduct inquiry of Edward Wegman through various email exchanges between paleoclimatologist Raymond Bradley and GMU. … Continue reading
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Wegman et al miscellany
By Deep Climate John Mashey has suggested a new thread for general talk about various aspects of the Wegman Report, and I’m happy to oblige. Of course, the immediately preceding Replication and Due Diligence, Wegman Style will remain open for … Continue reading
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