{"id":27873,"date":"2015-06-03T14:39:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocasapiens-dweb.blogautore.repubblica.it\/?p=27873"},"modified":"2021-10-17T17:47:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T15:47:57","slug":"lonesta-verita-sulla-disonesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/03\/lonesta-verita-sulla-disonesta\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#039;onesta verit\u00e0 sulla disonest\u00e0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anche in Brasile, si \u00e8 parlato del paper ritrattato di LaCour &amp; Green sulla capacit\u00e0 di persuasione degli attivisti politici gay, dice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/retracted-gay-marriage-study-debated-at-misconduct-meet-up-1.17687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard van Noorden<\/a> di<em> Nature<\/em> che sonda le opinioni degli &#8220;esperti&#8221; in disonest\u00e0 scientifica:<\/p>\n<p><em>The world\u2019s largest gathering of specialists in research misconduct kicked off on 31 May in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, shortly after science\u2019s latest scandal broke. On the evening before the start of sessions on how to diagnose and remedy ethical faults in research, delegates to the 4th World Conference on Research Integrity sipped caipirinhas, Brazil\u2019s national cocktail \u2014 and swapped views on what could be gleaned from a flawed political-science study.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Il <a href=\"http:\/\/wcri2015.org\/4WCRI_Program.pdf\">programma<\/a> della conferenza \u00e8 spaventoso. Comunque quest&#8217;anno c &#8216;\u00e8 anche questo:<\/p>\n<p><em>The new Italian guidelines on research integrity in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esf.org\/fileadmin\/Public_documents\/Publications\/Code_Conduct_ResearchIntegrity.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European context<\/a><strong>, <\/strong>presentation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/docenti.unimc.it\/iljarichard.pavone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ilja Richard Pavone<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>link aggiunti.\u00a0Al CNR, le linee guida dovrebbero essere<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urp.cnr.it\/copertine\/urp_evidenza\/Evidenze_2014\/Codice_Etico_Comportamento_CNR.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> queste<\/a>\u00a0(pp. 7-8, il resto riguarda corruzione, abusi di atti d&#8217;ufficio, conflitti d&#8217;interesse).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/25\/is-it-science-or-science-a-cheat-sheet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mmm<\/a><\/strong>&#8230; conviene (ri)leggere l&#8217;intervento di Dan Ari\u00e9ly alla conferenza dell&#8217;anno scorso, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/danariely.com\/tag\/the-honest-truth-about-dishonesty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Honest Truth about Dishonesty<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Dall&#8217;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/misplaced-faith-1.17684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>editoriale<\/strong> <\/a>di <em>Nature:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Some scientists do cheat, of course, just as some scientists drive too fast, take drugs and are unfaithful to their spouses. The reasons are complex and varied. With some exceptions, scientific organizations do not engage with the issue of misconduct as seriously as they should. Why would they, when public confidence and (moral and financial) support remains so high?<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8230; although high-profile fraud makes headlines, a broader and more common set of unappealing behaviours \u2014 from corner-cutting to data-juggling \u2014 lie under the surface. Convention says that a tiny minority of scientists cheats, yet academics and researchers frequently make the case that irregularities are widespread. A 2014 survey of hundreds of economists, for example, found that 94% admitted to having engaged in at least one \u201cunaccepted\u201d research practice<\/em> \u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.respol.2014.05.002\">S. Necker\u00a0<i>Res. Policy\u00a0<\/i>43,\u00a01747\u20131759; 2014<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A proposito di quelli che barano, Mark Richardson,\u00a0Zeke Hausfather,\u00a0Dana A. Nuccitelli,\u00a0Ken Rice\u00a0e\u00a0John P. Abraham <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11434-015-0806-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pubblicano<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Misdiagnosis of Earth climate sensitivity based on energy balance model results<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">una demolizione delle<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/Monckton-Myth-4-Climate-Sensitivity.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> vecchie bufale<\/a>\u00a0che\u00a0Sua Signoria Lord Christopher Monckton e di Willie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php\/Willie_Soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Oil &amp; Coal<\/a>&#8221; Soon avevano riciclato su una rivista cinese per conto dello Heartland Institute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Abstract appetitoso:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Monckton of Brenchley et al. (Sci Bull 60:122\u2013135,\u00a0<cite><a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11434-015-0806-z#CR1\">2015<\/a><\/cite>) (hereafter called M15) use a simple energy balance model to estimate climate response. <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>They select parameters for this model based on semantic arguments, leading to different results from those obtained in physics-based studies.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>M15 did not validate their model against observations, but instead created synthetic test data based on subjective assumptions.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>We show that M15 systematically underestimate warming: since 1990, most years were warmer than their modelled upper limit.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>During 2000\u20132010, RMS error and bias are approximately 150 % and 350\u00a0% larger than for the CMIP5 median, using either the Berkeley Earth or Cowtan and Way surface temperature data.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>We show that this poor performance can be explained by a logical flaw in the parameter selection and that selected parameters contradict observational estimates.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Purtroppo il resto \u00e8 paywalled. ATTP (un degli autori) fa un mini\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com\/2015\/06\/03\/un-designing-our-climate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">riassunto<\/a>, <\/strong>perch\u00e9<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>I expect a couple of others articles out soon, that I shall link to when they\u2019re live. I don\u2019t think, therefore, that I really need to say too much.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Essenza delle picconate a cura di\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realsceptic.com\/2015\/06\/02\/moncktons-fundamentally-flawed-simple-climate-model\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rose Andreatta<\/a>, con<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.realsceptic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Monckton-model-comparison.png?resize=500%2C375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> grafico<\/a><\/strong> delle temperature inventate da Monckton et al. (M15) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/pics\/abraham_arctic1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rosa saracinesca<\/a>; idem Dana Nuccitelli sul <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-consensus-97-per-cent\/2015\/jun\/03\/research-downplaying-impending-global-warming-is-overturned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a><\/em>, e Mark Richardson su<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticalscience.com\/monckton15errors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Skeptical Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Su <em>Nature Climate Change<\/em>, esce un modello di Gr\u00e9gory Beaugrand et al. sulla &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nclimate2650.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vulnerabilit\u00e0 delle specie marine<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Our results indicate that local species loss will be a prominent phenomenon of climate warming in permanently stratified regions, and that local species invasion will prevail in temperate and polar biomes under all climate change scenarios.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">E&#8217; un modello molto semplificato, tengono conto delle temperature solo alla superficie, e non c&#8217;\u00e8 niente sull&#8217;acidificazione.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sui <em>PNAS<\/em>, un numero pazzesco di autori<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2015\/05\/27\/1423147112.abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> stima<\/a> il numero delle specie di alberi. Pare che sia la prima volta:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Using a pantropical tree inventory database from closed canopy forests, consisting of 657,630 trees belonging to 11,371 species, we use a fitted value of Fisher\u2019s alpha and an approximate pantropical stem total to estimate the minimum number of tropical forest tree species to fall between 40,000 and 53,000, i.e., at the high end of previous estimates. Contrary to common assumption, the Indo-Pacific region was found to be as species-rich as the Neotropics, with both regions having a minimum of 19,000\u201325,000 tree species. Continental Africa is relatively depauperate with a minimum of 4,500\u20136,000 tree species.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">L&#8217;Europa \u00e8 ancora pi\u00f9 depauperata, ha soltanto 124 specie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2020852\/files\/cms_13TeV_3June2015_0.png?subformat=icon-640\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alle <a href=\"http:\/\/home.web.cern.ch\/about\/updates\/2015\/06\/live-blog-lhc-experiments-start-taking-data-13-tev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7.30 di questa mattina<\/a>, al CERN \u00a0l&#8217;LHC \u00e8 entrato\u00a0in funzione a 13 TeV, i primi fasci erano da buttare, ma poi \u00e8 andata di bene in meglio, altre\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/2020852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immagini <\/a>delle collisioni e champagne. Reportage su <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/supercharged-lhc-tackles-universe-s-big-questions-1.17693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nature<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nota per\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.borborigmi.org\/2015\/06\/02\/domani-sara-un-grande-giorno-per-lhc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Marco<\/strong>:<\/a> noi siamo sintonizzati, ma tu quand&#8217;\u00e8 che trasmetti le <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atlasexperiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">novit\u00e0<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Una brutta notizia, Leo Lederman (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.fnal.gov\/lml_photoalbum\/lml_ellen_on_horses.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">qui <\/a><\/strong>nella fattoria del Fermilab insieme alla moglie Ellen) \u00a0non\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencetimes.com\/articles\/6822\/20150530\/selling-his-most-prized-possession-the-nobel-prize.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sta bene<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anche in Brasile, si \u00e8 parlato del paper ritrattato di LaCour &amp; Green sulla capacit\u00e0 di persuasione degli attivisti politici gay, dice Richard van Noorden di Nature che sonda le opinioni degli &#8220;esperti&#8221; in disonest\u00e0 scientifica: The world\u2019s largest gathering of specialists in research misconduct kicked off on 31 May in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/2015\/06\/03\/lonesta-verita-sulla-disonesta\/\">Continua a leggere <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">L&#039;onesta verit\u00e0 sulla disonest\u00e0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,10,11,16],"tags":[866,1255,1330,1771,3945,3964,4535,6443,7313],"class_list":["post-27873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ambiente","category-bufala","category-clima","category-cronaca","category-fisica","tag-biodiversita","tag-cern","tag-christopher-monckton","tag-daniel-ariely","tag-leo-lederman","tag-lhc","tag-misconduct","tag-specie-di-alberi","tag-willie-soon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43115,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27873\/revisions\/43115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archivio.ocasapiens.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}