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The Wegman report sees red (noise)
By Deep Climate The recent focus on George Mason University’s investigation into plagiarism allegations concerning the Wegman “hockey stick” report and related scholarship has led to some interesting reactions in the blogosphere. Apparently, this involves trifling attribution problems for one … Continue reading
Wegman report update, part 2: GMU dissertation review
By Deep Climate Several posts in past months have highlighted highly questionable scholarship in the 2006 Wegman report on the “hockey stick” temperature reconstruction (and revelations of much more will come soon, with the imminent release of John Mashey’s massive … Continue reading
Wegman Report update, part 1: More dubious scholarship in full colour
This is the final instalment in a series of posts documenting dubious scholarship and unattributed sources in the background chapter of the touchstone of climate contrarians known as the Wegman Report. That report has been touted as Exhibit A proving … Continue reading
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Tagged David Scott, Edward Wegman, hockey stick, Michael Mann, Wegman report, Yasmin Said
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
John Mashey on Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report
Guest post by John Mashey Strange Scholarship in the Wegman Report (SSWR) A Facade for the Climate Anti-Science PR Campaign This report offers a detailed study of the “Wegman Report”: Edward J. Wegman, David W. Scott, Yasmin H. Said, “AD … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Wegman, hockey stick graph, John Mashey, Wegman report, Yasmin Said
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
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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Tagged Edward Wegman, George Mason University, Wiley, WIREs, Yasmin Said
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
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