At Mr. Steele's Landscapes and Cycles blog (July 1, 2014) "Blinded by Beliefs: The Straight Poop on Emperor" he writes:
¶1 "Two recent press releases concerning the Emperor Penguin’s fate illustrate contrasting forces that will either advance or suppress trustworthy conservation science."
¶12 "Mark Twain again provides insight to why bad science so easily goes viral having written, 'In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from others.' And apparently scientists suffer the same second? hand folly."
I have been doing exactly that and contacting a number of the scientists Mr. Steele singles out in his YouTube 'climate science horror' series. More times than not, it's turned out to be our Mr. Steele who is suppressing an honest, open and complete review of the available science.
This morning I decided to go directly to Mr. Steele and request the source of one of his many questionable assertions. Where did the claim of "chicks falling into the ocean and drowning come from? I still haven't heard from him and since this is a public dialogue regarding his vehement public attacks on the integrity of respectable dedicated scientists, I've decided to share the following email. This text has been slightly polished, but I will be forwarding this to Steele and Director Blair after posting.
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Question re your "drowning chicks" claim
January 9, 2015
To:
Jim Steele
cc'd:
John R Blair, Director of the Sierra Nevada Field Campus
Dr. Ainley
