How to spot bad science.

[Solly]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
So Doddler, CO2's greenhouse effect is a "new law of nature"?

The absence of the Mediaeval Warm Period is.

[Solly]

Some more...

• Use of vague, exaggerated, or untestable claims (computer models trump real world measurements, alarmism, false claims of consensus)
• Overreliance on confirmation rather than refutation (burden of disproof placed on skeptics)
• Lack of openness to testing by other experts (science by press conference, withholding data and computer code)
• Lack of self correction when faced with contradictory evidence
• Personalization of issues (groupthink, ad hominem attacks on “deniers”, conspiracy theories about industry influence)