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Sherwood Rowland was an atmospheric chemist who won the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his research proving that CFCs destroy Earth’s ozone layer. He also served on William Nierenberg’s panel to study acid rain. When Fred Singer and Dixy Lee Ray tried to undermine Rowland’s research by distorting his evidence, he derided their tactics and defended himself in a major public speech to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (of which he was president).
Sherwood Rowland Quotes in Merchants of Doubt
The Merchants of Doubt quotes below are all either spoken by Sherwood Rowland or refer to Sherwood Rowland. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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Scientists are confident they know bad science when they see it. It’s science that is obviously fraudulent—when data have been invented, fudged, or manipulated. Bad science is where data have been cherry-picked—when some data have been deliberately left out—or it’s impossible for the reader to understand the steps that were taken to produce or analyze the data. It is a set of claims that can’t be tested, claims that are based on samples that are too small, and claims that don’t follow from the evidence provided. And science is bad—or at least weak—when proponents of a position jump to conclusions on insufficient or inconsistent data.
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Sherwood Rowland Quotes in Merchants of Doubt
The Merchants of Doubt quotes below are all either spoken by Sherwood Rowland or refer to Sherwood Rowland. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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Scientists are confident they know bad science when they see it. It’s science that is obviously fraudulent—when data have been invented, fudged, or manipulated. Bad science is where data have been cherry-picked—when some data have been deliberately left out—or it’s impossible for the reader to understand the steps that were taken to produce or analyze the data. It is a set of claims that can’t be tested, claims that are based on samples that are too small, and claims that don’t follow from the evidence provided. And science is bad—or at least weak—when proponents of a position jump to conclusions on insufficient or inconsistent data.
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