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Archived Those who raise questions about man-made global warming are labeled "contrarians" in a study by three academics at the University of California Merced, published in the journal Nature Communications (science)
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Discrepancy in scientific authority and media visibility of climate change scientists and contrarians | Nature Communications
Abstract: We juxtapose 386 prominent contrarians with 386 expert scientists by tracking their digital footprints across ∼200,000 research publications and ∼100,000 English-language digital and print media articles on climate change. Projecting these individuals across the same backdrop facilitates quantifying disparities in media visibility and scientific authority, and identifying organization patterns within their association networks. Here we show via direct comparison that contrarians are featured in 49% more media articles than scientists. Yet when comparing visibility in mainstream media sources only, we observe just a 1% excess visibility, which objectively demonstrates the crowding out of professional mainstream sources by the proliferation of new media sources, many of which contribute to the production and consumption of climate change disinformation at scale. These results demonstrate why climate scientists should increasingly exert their authority in scientific and public discourse, and why professional journalists and editors should adjust the disproportionate attention given to contrarians.
Abstract:
We juxtapose 386 prominent contrarians with 386 expert scientists by tracking their digital footprints across ∼200,000 research publications and ∼100,000 English-language digital and print media articles on climate change. Projecting these individuals across the same backdrop facilitates quantifying disparities in media visibility and scientific authority, and identifying organization patterns within their association networks. Here we show via direct comparison that contrarians are featured in 49% more media articles than scientists. Yet when comparing visibility in mainstream media sources only, we observe just a 1% excess visibility, which objectively demonstrates the crowding out of professional mainstream sources by the proliferation of new media sources, many of which contribute to the production and consumption of climate change disinformation at scale. These results demonstrate why climate scientists should increasingly exert their authority in scientific and public discourse, and why professional journalists and editors should adjust the disproportionate attention given to contrarians.
[–] Jimmycog 0 points 0 points 0 points (+0|-0) 1.3 years ago
Enlightened people tend to be contrary to lying "climate science".
[–] Gumbatron 0 points 0 points 0 points (+0|-0) 1.3 years ago
Christopher Monckton seems to be quite pissed about it all, Fraud and Libel suits incomming...
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/08/17/the-nature-communications-hate-list-a-fast-moving-story/
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I find the "Ethics Declaration" section to be quite interesting...
Ethics declarations
Competing interests
The authors declare no competing interests.
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[–] Jimmycog ago
Enlightened people tend to be contrary to lying "climate science".
[–] Gumbatron ago
Christopher Monckton seems to be quite pissed about it all, Fraud and Libel suits incomming...
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/08/17/the-nature-communications-hate-list-a-fast-moving-story/
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I find the "Ethics Declaration" section to be quite interesting...
Ethics declarations
Competing interests
The authors declare no competing interests.