Jan
The corrupted nature of Nature
Today’s Canada Free Press article, Climategate: Failure of a Blind and Biased Mainstream Media, rightly scolds the mainstream media for their ignorance and silence on climategate. The whole piece is worth a read, but we loved in particular the spanking they gave the Nature journal.
Those involved in the original deception now present ludicrous arguments. The journal “Nature” used in the corruption of the peer-review process and biased throughout says, “If there are benefits to the e-mail theft, one is to highlight yet again the harassment that denialists inflict on some climate-change researchers, often in the form of endless, time-consuming demands for information under the US and UK Freedom of Information Acts. Governments and institutions need to provide tangible assistance for researchers facing such a burden.”
Absolute rubbish! They should read their guidelines, which say in part, An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors’ published claims. Therefore, a condition of publication in a Nature journal is that authors are required to make materials, data and associated protocols promptly available to readers without preconditions. (Their emphasis).
It’s a sad commentary that the science media is worse in their deception than the lamestream media is in their silence.
Maybe I have been out of the loop for too long (PhD, Chemistry 1980). Back then, Nature was not considered a journal, simply an occasionally interesting magazine of “science” (like Scientific American). When did they get promoted?
Whole university programs can now be legitimized solely through the publication of a “letter” in Nature. See Organic Farming at Washington State University.