Beam me to Planet Gore !
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Robert Brown says:
“I would never call Mr. McIntyre’s efforts, “fruitless”, many have already borne fruit, and the seeds from those fruit will themselves bear fruit in the future.”
All too often fruitless. I was referring to M&M’s well-documented efforts, over many years, to get access to the actual hockey stick proxy data and code, and to Mcintyre’s ongoing effort to gain access to still more actual code and data in the case of many other questionable publications. These efforts are so far fruitless, and they each require enormous energy to pursue — I literally don’t know how he does it, as he has to fight for years to get something that he shouldn’t even have to ask for.
That’s the fundamental motivation for Mcintyre’s Law. He shouldn’t even have to ask for access to the code and data and methods used to produce graphs and conclusions that affect the directed use of trillions of dollars wordwide! Indeed, this is so obvious that it is manifestly insane that he has to actively fight against researchers who don’t want to expose their work at a level that might reveal the hidden thumb on the scales. I can understand it — that thumb could be deliberate or it could be sheer incompetence in statistics (nobody understands statistics, making it so very easy to either lie with it or simply make a horrible mistake with it) but either way the discovery of a serious problem could be a career-ender. However, the stakes are too high for the current business-as-usual hidden methodology or methodology described only in crude terms that do not permit the precise numerical reconstruction of results to continue.
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