Quote:Peer review checks for obvious errors, poor wording, and missing references (and you'd better reference all of the related papers of the reviewers). Peer review does not vet computer programs used in the research, and unless the paper disagrees with the viewpoint of the reviewer, the quality of the research is not questioned. You assign far too much value to peer review.


And yes, one can easily fudge the data behind a program, or even fudge it inside a program. The following example is from CRU, not NASA. CRU is as highly regarded as NASA in the field of <del>Global Warming</del> Climate Change.


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Apply a VERY ARTIFICAL correction for decline!!
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yrloc=[1400,findgen(19)*5.+1904]

valadj=[0.,0.,0.,0.,0.,-0.1,-0.25,-0.3,0.,-0.1,0.3,0.8,1.2,1.7,2.5,2.6,2.6,$

2.6,2.6,2.6]*0.75 ; fudge factor

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APPLY ARTIFICIAL CORRECTION
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yearlyadj=interpol(valadj,yrloc,x)

densall=densall+yearlyadj