When in 2007 the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) later renaming itself as the Committee for Scientific Inquiry (CSI) proclaimed a policy of the organization that Global Warming was irrefutable and that humankind was primary cause, we assumed the data must be undeniable. Nevertheless, even though supported nearly all of CSI's stands, we decided to do a little critical analysis and check the data.
It was hardly irrefutable. In fact, serious debate challenging this claim was underway led by some credible, highly-respected climatologists. It seemed obvious that the premier skeptic organization should be the ideal platform on which to have a meaningful SCIENTIFIC investigation of the FACTS that were becoming government policy.
No way! In a completely disgraceful manner CSI only doubled down on its questionable position.
We don't dispute global warming. We don't dispute humankind's contribution to global warming. We are disappointed in CSI abysmal failure to standby the principles of Scientific Inquiry, thereby severely discrediting its work on addressing other significant matters of pseudo-science.
We had little influence on matters at CSI. The only way we could protest this failure of the skeptical method and critical thought was to terminate our small financial support.
Now a decade later CSI adds to its failure to be a credible skeptical organization by announced that Michael Mann had been elected as a 2017 Fellow of CSI.
Mann was the topic of the book "A Disgrace to His Profession." He hardly stands with the likes of Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, B.F. Skinner, Philip J. Klass, Paul Kurtz, James Randi, Martin Gardner, and Ray Hyman. Mann only disgraces their legacy and their once skeptical mission.
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