The paper’s failure as a work of statistical genetics stands in contrast to its success as a work of public outreach. If we are annoyed that a bad paper got the message across, then we should be annoyed with ourselves that we never communicated our own results properly. Here is some small attempt to rectify that:

Method/Models

The inadequacy of such approaches becomes clear when one seeks to compare or combine information from climate reconstructions at different locations since they often do not match one another as well as one would expect. In this talk we will describe models developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield and the British Antarctic Survey that allow us to quantify uncertainties on ice core chronologies and articulate them in terms of probability distributions.

Results and Conclusions

A pivotal part of interpreting the information held within these sequences is to build ice core chronologies i.e. to relate time to depth. Until recently, those constructing chronologies focused on providing "best" estimates for the dates at a selection of depths in the core and offered only limited information about the uncertainties on them.

Statistical Science and Philosophy of Science: Where Do (Should) They Meet in 2011 and Beyond?

At one level of analysis, statisticians and philosophers of science ask many of the same questions: What should be observed and what may justifiably be inferred from the resulting data? How well-tested or confirmed are hypotheses with data? How can statistical models and methods bridge the gaps between data and scientific claims of interest? These general questions are entwined with long standing philosophical debates, so it is no wonder that the statistics crosses over so often into philosophical territory.

Lots on asymptotics of nonparametric testing, resampling, U-statistics, etc. .

Talks about PLOS NULL to publish all null science findings.

The third type of error occurs when comparing several brain areas and claiming that a particular effect (property) is specific for one of these brain areas. In this type of situation, researchers do not compare a designated region of interest with a control area, but instead compare a number of brain areas with more or less equal 'a priori status'.

Statistics is social work for science

He has given talks at IMA.

If between a third and a half of the most acclaimed research in medicine was proving untrustworthy, the scope and impact of the problem were undeniable.

Me - "Absolutely necessary to do a similar study into climate science research"

Elsewhere, the Boston investment research firm Kinder, Lyndenberg, Domini & Co. for 19 years has compiled data about the widening gap between workers’ wages and executive pay. That’s relevant because the larger the disparity between management and rank-and-file pay, the more likely managers “objectify lower-level employees,” according to an analysis of KLD data by professor Jennifer George (Rice University), Sreedhari Desair (Harvard University) and Arthur Brief (University of Utah).

The result, they say: “moral disengagement” and an “exaggerated power asymmetry” that contributes to people with power being difficult or bad-tempered toward those with less power. Such a loss of balance and perspective, they note, intensifies as pay gaps continue to grow between CEOs and their labor forces.