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This is a continuation of the series on how peer-review works…and doesn’t work. Part 1 looked at the basics of how the peer-review proce...

Last week in Part 1 we looked at the basics of how the peer-review process works for scientific papers - what it does, and what it doesn...

You’ll see the term “peer-review” a lot on these pages, as well as on both scientific and denialist blogs, and in the media. Unfortunatel...

In this age of near-universal online access to information, it seems everyone has an opinion. Whereas plumbers, brain surgeons, and scient...

One of the most striking aspects of climate denial is how much effort - and desperation - deniers put into denying even basic realities. T...

Periodically I post reviews of relevant science communication books. The following is a reposted review of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handf...

It should come as no surprise that 2014 is now officially the hottest year globally since records began in 1891. This news comes from the Ja...

A year ago The Dake Page underwent a transition from a periodic science and policy news blog to a weekly source of science/policy analysi...

The year 2014 will go down as one of the most important years in climate science, not so much because action was taken (though some was), bu...

Climate denial remains active despite the overwhelming consensus that human activity is causing the warming of the planet and that act...