CloudGate: Denialism Gets Dirty, Reputations Are At Stake : Greg Laden's Blog
Connotea Imports 2012-07-31
Summary:
"There has been a major dust-up in the climate denialist world. A study published in late July made false claims and was methodologically flawed, but still managed to get published in a peer reviewed journal. The Editor-in-Chief of that journal has resigned to symbolically take responsibility for the journal's egregious error of publishing what is essentially a fake scientific paper, and to "protest against how the authors [and others] have much exaggerated the paper's conclusions" taking to task the University of Alabama's press office, Forbes, Fox News and others....The paper was published in a journal, Remote Sensing....Remote Sensing is one of a new breed of journal, called "Open Access" which has a very different model for how journals should work. It is, frankly, the much preferred model over the traditional way things are published....Had a major well established traditional "Closed Access" journal published this paper, it is possible that the Editor-in-Chief of that journal would not have resigned just because of a major dust-up over one paper. However, in this case, it may have been necessary because of the somewhat tenuous nature of this sort of publishing venture...." (PS: Also see the comment section, on the variation in quality and integrity among OA journals.)