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Climate contrarian backlash - a difficult lesson for scientific journals to learn
2014-04-14 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scientific journals have had a bumpy road trying to learn how to deal with climate contrarians. Poor decisions by journal staff in dealing with contrarians have often led to editors resigning and a damaged reputation in the academic community. The latest such example is the journal Frontiers and its response to bullying by contrarians over a paper by Stephan Lewandowsky and colleagues. The paper analyzed the conspiratorial psychology of contrarian comments made on public blogs. As I previously...
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