Climate researchers are self-censoring and adapting their research to fit in with the climate alarmist narrative in order to be published in the top journals, a climate scientist whistleblower has said. Writing in the Free Press, Dr. Patrick T. Brown says that he wrote his new paper in Nature according to the approved script in order to get it published, after having previous articles rejected by the top journals for not sticking to it closely enough. Here’s how his FP article begins.
If you’ve been reading any news about wildfires this summer — from Canada to Europe to Maui — you will surely get the impression that they are mostly the result of climate change.
Here’s the AP: ‘Climate change keeps making wildfires and smoke worse. Scientists call it the “new abnormal.”’
And PBS NewsHour: ‘Wildfires driven by climate change are on the rise—Spain must do more to prepare, experts say.’
And the New York Times: ‘How Climate Change Turned Lush Hawaii Into a Tinderbox.’
And Bloomberg: ‘Maui Fires Show Climate Change’s Ugly Reach.’
I am a climate scientist. And while climate change is an important factor affecting wildfires over many parts of the world, it isn’t close to the only factor that deserves our sole focus.
So why does the press focus so intently on climate change as the root cause? Perhaps for the same reasons I just did in an academic paper about wildfires in Nature, one of the world’s most prestigious journals: it fits a simple storyline that rewards the person telling it.
The paper I just published — ‘Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California‘ — focuses exclusively on how climate change has affected extreme wildfire behaviour. I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature and its rival, Science, want to tell.
This matters because it is critically important for scientists to be published in high-profile journals; in many ways, they are the gatekeepers for career success in academia. And the editors of these journals have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain preapproved narratives — even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society.
To put it bluntly, climate science has become less about understanding the complexities of the world and more about serving as a kind of Cassandra, urgently warning the public about the dangers of climate change. However understandable this instinct may be, it distorts a great deal of climate science research, misinforms the public, and most importantly, makes practical solutions more difficult to achieve.
Why is this happening?
It starts with the fact that a researcher’s career depends on his or her work being cited widely and perceived as important. This triggers the self-reinforcing feedback loops of name recognition, funding, quality applications from aspiring PhD students and postdocs, and of course, accolades.
But as the number of researchers has skyrocketed in recent years — there are close to six times more PhDs earned in the U.S. each year than there were in the early 1960s — it has become more difficult than ever to stand out from the crowd. So while there has always been a tremendous premium placed on publishing in journals like Nature and Science, it’s also become extraordinarily more competitive.
In theory, scientific research should prize curiosity, dispassionate objectivity, and a commitment to uncovering the truth. Surely those are the qualities that editors of scientific journals should value.
In reality, though, the biases of the editors (and the reviewers they call upon to evaluate submissions) exert a major influence on the collective output of entire fields. They select what gets published from a large pool of entries, and in doing so, they also shape how research is conducted more broadly. Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximise the likelihood that their work is accepted. I know this because I am one of them.
The media should “stop accepting such papers at face value”, Dr. Brown says, “and do some digging on what’s been left out”. The editors of the prominent journals need to “expand beyond a narrow focus that pushes the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions”. And the researchers need to “start standing up to editors, or find other places to publish”.
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Obviously true but I would add the complimentary accomplishments: the Western public seem convinced it wasn’t the trillions of dollars printed in 2020-21 or self-defeating energy policy that caused inflation, it was Poot Poot go Bang Bang. Back to Ukraine and with over $100 billion chucked in just from America everyone with skin in the game seems to be jumping ship from the Kyiv laundromat (apparent short-straw recipient, regime fixer on Ukraine Bunter has just been to give and take) and talking negotiation back to April 2022 scenarios, that Bunter told Zelenskyyyy to abandon at the time. Any nasties or biolabs there have had ample time to be neutralised so
Dr David KellyHans Blix can go and check if there’s sceptics. And abolishing democracy, procedure and civil rights for the other invisible enemy Covid is just a vague memory, with the boldest propagandists have you believe the vaccines are a unanimous success and a public never more enamoured by more gene therapies:…as Russell Brand pointed out months ago…it’s a real turn around, when the only questioning coverage in the MSM that you get about the proxy war..is from the supposed far-right Fox News…no ‘left’ bias news outlets, who historically might question ‘war’….will move against the narrative…
In the UK, just like the scamdemic propaganda, the whole of MSM have followed the truly juvenile and frankly, often cringe-worthy, ‘truth-light’ agenda….it’s utterly dismal and pathetic…
Jimmy Dore is a case in point …. he of course has his own show, which gets more views than many MSM outlets, but the only MSM he gets invited to appear on? Fox!!…..
This is a brilliant rant, and spot on…..
https://rumble.com/v27wxsm-tucker-carlson-and-jimmy-dore-your-enemy-is-the-military-industrial-complex.html
Excellent piece of investigative journalism uncovering the disgusting tactics used by a UN initiative called ‘Team Halo’, to literally harass and make life hell for any health care professional who speaks out publicly against the official narrative. This is a new low and next level malicious. Because it’s all about a virus and for the good of our health…yeah, evidently!
”On Sep. 20, 2022, Melissa Fleming, the under-secretary-general for global communications at the United Nations, appeared at the World Economic Forum to discuss how the United Nations was “Tackling Disinformation” regarding “health guidance” as well as the “safety and efficacy of the vaccine” for COVID-19.
“A key strategy that we had was to deploy influencers,” Fleming stated. “Influencers who were really keen, who had huge followings, but really keen to help carry messages that were going to serve their communities.”
Fleming also explained that the United Nations knew its messaging wouldn’t resonate as well as influencers, so they developed Team Halo.
“We had another trusted messenger project, which was called Team Halo, where we trained scientists around the world, and some doctors, on TikTok. We had TikTok working with us,” Fleming said. “It was a layered deployment of ideas and tactics.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/un-initiative-targets-and-doxes-doctors-and-nurses-who-dont-follow-covid-19-narrative_4989210.html
Would be interesting to see this data comparing mortality in different US states vs number of experimental vaccination doses and see how this claim holds up.
https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1620512597798977539?cxt=HHwWhoDUnebnm_0sAAAA
The UK data they are referring to is the ONS data at May 2022 (rather than insurance data) so hard to see how they’ve reached their conclusion there as there are problems with that dataset as Norman Fenton etal have shown. So we can’t reach definitive conclusions.
I don’t know if you aware of this man in the USA…John Beaudoin? He acquired thousands of death certificates, and matched them to VAERS data, showing links between vaccination and death…or at least death and injuries within a short period of vaccination…
https://rumble.com/v257tpw-john-beaudoin-exposes-truth-of-covid-deaths-from-medical-records-live.html
He also has a substack…
https://coquindechien.substack.com/p/vaccine-death-count-and-a-ramble
His basic premise (which being a data dummy suits me!) is that if all death certificates had a field which related to vaccine type and date received…then each State could count deaths within 1-3 days…after 1 week, 10 weeks, 25 weeks, to one year…after immunisation…
“I maintain that I can end this debate in a week if any state allows me to correlate the databases. There is a term in law that fits. Res ipsa loquitur – direct translation “thing itself storyteller.” id est, “the thing itself is the teller of the story.” Lawyers and judges say, “The thing speaks for itself.” And that is what this data does. Once the number of deaths that occur within days or a couple weeks of vaccination are known, no doctor, no research scientist, no lawyer is necessary to explain or parse the data. The data will tell the story on its own. We will all be done with this vaccine.”
Seems a good idea to me….and on a personal note, if you were undertaking a giant new medical experiment, I would think it might be something you wanted to know anyway??
Thanks. Wasn’t aware of him. I’ll take a look when I have a bit more time.
I have always appreciated your data…I even quote it on occasion…LOL!
He is an interesting person, and I think it would be simple enough to do…you have to ask why none of them want to make it simple!?
He spotted the correlation between vax and strokes, way back, from the death/VAERS data…
Love the kindness and humanity of your posts too, some brilliant links too
I’m halfway through the John Beaudoin video and it’s totally blowing me away. Love his style too and asides about beer making etc!
It’s much clearer what’s likely to have been happening in England and Wales now as the overall age stratified deaths pattern between 2020 (which includes the circa 8 weeks pandemic period) and 2021 (the vaccine period) is very similar to Masachussetts.
As you will know what John Beaudoin has done is to split the causes of death from the death certificates but these causes themselves are split by age band and compared between 2020 and 2021. When you do this it all becomes clear. The lack of dry tinder effect in the oldest age groups when looking at total deaths obscures what has been happening in lower age groups in England and Wales (my own charts show this). The dry tinder effect is in this regards a bit of a hypothesis.
But what John Beaudoin’s Masachusetts analysis does in demonstrating the lack of dry tinder effect by cause of death by looking at age bands is astonishingly revelatory. The same thing must be happening in England and Wales.
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“James Innes-Smith in the Spectator on the mystery of why an anti-white campaign group is blaming white people for the violent death of a black man at the hands of five black police officers.”
Not a mystery. White people are to blame for everything, if you ask certain people.
TY: ‘I thought surely they can’t be monitoring people who are critical of government policy… But it turns out they were!’
Yup, one of the barriers to the development of opposition to covid folly and evil is that even old cynics like TY struggle to imagine that people they thought were broadly like them could be so wicked.
Another critical item that crawled out of the woodwork: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0pu0ucsXVk&list=WL&index=3 “NHS therapist reveals his experience”. It contains an associated link to elsewhere: https://rumble.com/v26y5j8-ex-nhs-therapist-speaks-about-vaccine-roll-out-worries.html
“The things is, we have not only been seeing high excess deaths in older people, we are actually seeing very high excess deaths among younger people now as well, which was NOT the case during covid. Something has changed.
In Europe during week 49, there was a whopping 43.3% more deaths among children aged 0-14 compared with the average number of weekly deaths during covid from 2020 to mid 2021. This should make alarm bells ring.
Why is there so many child excess deaths?This is very worrying.”
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/child-excess-deaths
After much, yes he is, no he isn’t…it looks like the great news is that Mark Steyn will be returning shortly….!
Brilliant….
https://www.steynonline.com/13216/back-from-the-dead
https://dossier.substack.com/p/bill-gates-secured-hundreds-of-millions
From Jordan Schachtel….
Bill Gates secured hundreds of millions in profits from mRNA stock sales before suddenly changing tune on vaccine technology Once an mRNA evangelist, Gates now dismisses the technology as inferior, after banking a 15x return on investment.In reviewing SEC filings, The Dossier has found that the Gates Foundation’s holdings in BioNTech went from 1,038,674 shares to 148,674 shares over the course of the third quarter of 202, downsizing the Gates position in the mRNA vaccine manufacturer by 86 percent of shares held. Gates just so happened to time the market perfectly, selling the shares during BioNtech’s best performing quarter.
The Gates Foundation secured its shares in the Pfizer vaccine partner through a pre-IPO equity deal with an agreed upon purchase price of $18.10 per share. With an average sale price of around $300 per share in Q3 of 2021, this means that the Gates Foundation banked roughly $260 million in cash from the sale, with $242 million being untaxed profit, given that the money was invested through the foundation.
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I’ve got to agree ebg – No Comment or I might get banned.
Soz the Downtick was me thinking I was replying to say Spot on
Another ‘conspiracy theory’ ??
https://expose-news.com/2022/04/13/us-dod-contract-covid-research-ukraine-nov-2019/
The world first started to hear about a novel coronavirus in early January 2020, with reports of an alleged new pneumonia like illness spreading across Wuhan, China. However, the world did not actually know of Covid-19 until February 2020, because it was not until the 11th of that month that the World Health Organisation officially named the novel coronavirus disease as Covid-19.
So with this being the official truth, why does United States Government data show that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) awarded a contract on the 12th November 2019 to Labyrinth Global Health INC. for ‘COVID-19 Research’, at least one month before the alleged emergence of the novel coronavirus, and three months before it was officially dubbed Covid-19?
The shocking findings however, do not end there. The contract awarded in November 2019 for ‘COVID-19 Research’ was not only instructed to take place in Ukraine, it was in fact part of a much larger contract for a ‘Biological threat reduction program in Ukraine’.
Perhaps explaining why Labyrinth Global Health has been collaborating with Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance, and Ernest Wolfe’s Metabiota since its formation in 2017.
This isn’t in the article, but I would add this from the Daily Mail, March 2022…
https://newspunch.com/german-govt-bombshell-alarming-number-of-vaccinated-are-developing-aids/
Who predicted this? Was it Gert van der Bosche?
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