Whistleblowers Accuse 22 Climate Papers of Fraud: “She Made Up Data”

"A group of whistleblowers has asked three funding agencies for a misconduct investigation into a series of 22 research papers, many of them on the effects of ocean acidification on fish behavior and ecology.

The request rests on what they say is evidence of manipulation in publicly available raw data files for two papers.

The disputed papers' main authors --Philip Munday (a marine ecologist) and Danielle Dixson (a U.S. biologist)-- emphatically deny making up data, and James Cook University, Townsville, in Australia has dismissed the fabrication allegations against one of them after a preliminary investigation. But multiple independent scientists and data experts who reviewed the case flagged what they said were serious problems in the data sets."

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It's disappointing that even scientists lie. It seems that nobody is willing to tell the truth these days. You can't trust the media, governments, scientists, who can one trust?

Robin