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I just got done reading and listening to two great books by Jonah Lehrer, How We Decide (both the hard copy paperback and the audiobook) and Proust Was Neuroscientist (the audiobook) and thought they were two of the best books I’ve read in recent years so I was particularly interested and disappointed to read this news regarding Lehrer that I stumbled on last night.
- Jonah Lehrer’s Downfall and the Hazards of Genius | Praxis | Big Think
- Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Dylan Quotes for His Book – NYTimes.com
New Yorker Writer Jonah Lehrer Fabricated Bob Dylan Quotes in His New Book, Imagine – Tablet Magazine- Q & A: Michael C. Moynihan, The Guy Who Uncovered Jonah Lehrer’s Fabrication Problem | Observer | Page 2
- On Bob Dylan And Jonah Lehrer, Two Fabulists : The Record : NPR
- ‘The Lies Are Over’: A Journalist Unravels : NPR
- 15 Minutes of Meaning for Jonah Lehrer – Alexis Madrigal – The Atlantic
- How a Freelance Journalist Unraveled Jonah Lehrer’s Lies – The Daily Beast
- Where Jonah Lehrer Went Astray – Forbes
Climate & Climate Politics
- Conversion of climate change skeptic not likely to sway GOP – latimes.com
- Fact-checking the climate change apocalypse – latimes.com
- Global warming science tackled – science | Stuff.co.nz (The author of this op-ed is Dr David M. W. Evans is a mathematician and engineer who has a long history of global warming denial activism who has aligned his view on science with his political position as a libertarian. David Evans)
- Study Shows Global Warming Data Skewed by Bad Monitoring (Briefly this article purports to be reporting on the at this point unpublished and non-peer reviewed paper from the well known climate change denial figure James Watt which regurgitates Watts debunked viewpoint that surface station temperature recording in the US is inaccurate and taints and even invalidates the worlds temperature record.)
- As We See It: Election: Warming up to climate change – Santa Cruz Sentinel
- Neither side budgesat climate hearing | The Desert Sun | MyDesert.com
- Richard Muller, covert agent for the climate conspiracy: the “sceptic” response to Muller’s BEST paper « Watching the Deniers (the emphasis is mine)
…Anthony Watts breaks the irony meter once again by claiming Muller’s work failed peer review:
Whoa, this is heavy. Ross McKitrick, who was a peer review referee for the BEST papers with the Journal of Geophysical Research got fed up with Muller’s media blitzing and tells his story
Watts clearly lacks self awareness, as his entire blog exists to showcase his vanity research on temperature records that has a) never been peer reviewed and b) is not fit to be published in a respected scientific journal….(read the complete article…)
- BEST: The science behind Richard Muller’s ‘conversion’ | Carbon Brief
- Rabett Run: Bunny Bait
- Two climate papers get hyped first, reviewed later. Is that a bad idea?
- Microwatts | Planet3.0
- Much Ado about Nothing | Open Mind
- Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. on two recent “game changing” climate papers | Wott’s Up With That?