Peter Wood
tlambert | August 24, 2011This is a guest post from John Mashey.
An amusing coincidence surfaced a few days ago, relating the US Presidential
campaign of Texas Governor Rick Perry to the Peter Wood kerfuffle at Chronicle
of Higher Education (CHE), including the stir in some parts of the
blogosphere.
I explain that, followed by the weird background.
0) Rick Perry and Peter Wood1) Chronology at CHE and NAS2) Deltoid and elsewhere3) Climate thuggery discovered by blogosphere4) Chronology of the thuggery wave5) Conclusion
0) Rick Perry and Peter Wood
See Washington Post, 08/18/11 Fact-Checker:
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tlambert | July 6, 2011At The Chronicle of Higher Education's blog Peter Wood excuses Wegman's plagiarism, calling it a flyspeck:
Mashey has been, as he puts it, "trying to take the offense" against global warming skeptics by flyspecking their publications. "You hope they make a mistake," he says, and when they do, he pounces with demands that journals retract whole articles. Some journals indeed have.
Compare with Wood's comments on Wade Churchill's dismissal for plagiarism:
Yesterday Denver District Court Judge Larry J. Naves turned down Ward Churchill's motion to be reinstated in his professorial position. The…