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The science of not knowing
FEEDBACK is always pleased to extend, enlarge and engorge our vocabulary so we are particularly pleased to discover a paper by Rasmus Benestad and colleagues in Earth Systems Dynamics entitled “Agnotology: learning from mistakes” (vol 4, p 451).
We see this as a sort of anti-review article. Whereas a review article tries to draw together the state of knowledge, this focuses on ignorance, examining the errors in 17 papers that question climate change, and looking for…
