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Showing posts with label peer to peer review. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 9, 2010
Peer-To-Peer Review: How ‘Climategate’ Marks The Maturing Of A New Science Movement, Part I
From Watt's Up With That?:
How a tiny blog and a collective of climate enthusiasts broke the biggest story in the history of global warming science – but not without a gatekeeper of the climate establishment trying to halt its proliferation.
It was triggered at the most unlikely of places. Not in the pages of a prominent science publication, or by an experienced muckraker. It was triggered at a tiny blog – a bit down the list of popular skeptic sites. With a small group of followers, a blog of this size could only start a media firestorm if seeded with just the right morsel of information, and found by just the right people. Yet it was at this location that the most lethal weapon against the global warming establishment was unleashed.
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