Editor-in-chief who published flawed article resigns
SEP 07, 2011
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.025558
Think Progress : In a stunning move, the editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Remote Sensing has resigned over the journal’s publication of what he calls a “fundamentally flawed” paper by climate science deniers Roy Spencer and William Braswell of the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In an editorial published 2 September, Wolfgang Wagner announces his resignation and accepts full responsibility for the paper’s publication. He states that the problem with publishing the paper was not that it was controversial or expressed a minority view, but that it “essentially ignored the scientific arguments of its opponents.” He admits that the three reviewers selected by the editorial team, albeit all senior scientists from renowned US universities, may have shared “some climate skeptic notions of the authors.”
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