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Old 28-January-2005, 04:43 PM
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Default Re: M&M hockey stick critique and scientific standards

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Originally Posted by BobK
Are there any standards in the other sciences that require public archiving of important information, data, and methods for others to analyze?

If not, why not?
Many journels, including Nature where the Mann et al articles were published, do require that the data be available on request. That is one of M&M's early complaints, that Mann et al did not provide the data for several series, making it harder to accurately reproduce the results. I don't think that was ever completely resolved, even with the Corrigendum.

Anyway, the M&M site update is pretty interesting (as discussed on the other thread). Their strongest evidence, IMO, is still that feeding random data into Mann's program yields the same hockey stick shape.
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