{"id":13269,"date":"2017-12-13T08:22:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=13269"},"modified":"2017-12-13T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T14:22:42","slug":"13269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/12\/13\/13269\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing A Hand Grenade Down The Bowling Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the category of “processes of one sector intruding on another” (unwieldy, yes) is this\u00a0report\u00a0<\/a>from\u00a0The Volokh Conspiracy\u00a0<\/b><\/i>on one Mark Z. Jacobson of Stanford, who is suing over a paper critical of his own work:<\/p>\n

In late September, Jacobson\u00a0filed a defamation suit<\/a>\u00a0in the District of Columbia against [Christopher] Clack and the NAS [National Academy of Sciences] for\u00a0publishing a peer-reviewed critique<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0one of his co-authored papers<\/a>\u00a0in the \u201cProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Jacobson further claims that the NAS wronged him by failing to follow its own publication guidelines. (The complaint is\u00a0here<\/a>. An explanatory statement is\u00a0here<\/a>.) The underlying issue is the credibility of Jacobson\u2019s claim that 100 percent of the United States\u2019 electricity needs may be met by renewable energy sources.
\nAccording to Jacobson, the paper authored by Clack, and joined by another 20 co-authors, made false and misleading claims about Jacobson\u2019s work in the process of dismissing his conclusions about the potential of renewable energy. Jacobson objects to Clack, et al., charging that some of Jacobson\u2019s conclusions were based upon unfounded, undisclosed assumptions and \u201cmodeling error.\u201d Jacobson further claims that both Clack and the NAS were aware of these alleged problems before the paper was published.\u00a0Clack, et al., for their part, have\u00a0responded in detail<\/a>\u00a0to Jacobson\u2019s claims. Readers may judge for themselves who has the better of the argument.<\/p>\n

Although\u00a0NAS published\u00a0Jacobson\u2019s response<\/a>\u00a0in \u201cPNAS\u201d as well, Jacobson is not satisfied. He is demanding a retraction and\u00a0is seeking compensatory damages of $10 million each from Clack and NAS.\u00a0 Some of Clack\u2019s co-authors, who include Ken Caldeira, David Victor and Jane Long,\u00a0are identified in the complaint but were not named as defendants in the suit. (For what it\u2019s worth, Jacobson\u2019s co-authors do not appear to be parties to this suit either.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Suing is what happens in the private sector. In science? Dude, you just return fire, and let the peers qualified to comment render a verdict in time-honored fashion. The damage you’re doing to the scientific sector by introducing potentially career-ruining forces that are not connected to the scientific merit of arguments is huge and idiotic, as it introduces foreign influences that do not have the sector’s goals at heart.<\/p>\n

Just stop it. Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the category of “processes of one sector intruding on another” (unwieldy, yes) is this\u00a0report\u00a0from\u00a0The Volokh Conspiracy\u00a0on one Mark Z. Jacobson of Stanford, who is suing over a paper critical of his own work: In late September, Jacobson\u00a0filed a defamation suit\u00a0in the District of Columbia against [Christopher] Clack and the \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13271,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13269\/revisions\/13271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}