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one study on its own does not show anything: results are only considered reliable if a number of different studies have replicated them
:I have quite literally had journalists phone me up during an unusually warm spell of weather and ask “is this a result of global warming?” When I say “No, not really, it is just weather,” they’ve thanked me very much and then phoned somebody else, and kept trying until they got someone to say yes it was. - Dr. Richard Betts, head of the climate impacts division at Britain’s Met Office [http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/a-call-to-rein-in-climate-hype-cold-or-hot/]
:I have quite literally had journalists phone me up during an unusually warm spell of weather and ask “is this a result of global warming?” When I say “No, not really, it is just weather,” they’ve thanked me very much and then phoned somebody else, and kept trying until they got someone to say yes it was. - Dr. Richard Betts, head of the climate impacts division at Britain’s Met Office [http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/a-call-to-rein-in-climate-hype-cold-or-hot/]
The media will typically herald a study as "the latest breakthrough", forgetting the fact that:
:Scientists believe that one study on its own does not show anything: results are only considered reliable if a number of different studies have replicated them.<ref> [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/01/gender.books Deborah Cameron] - The Guardian - 1 October 2007]</ref>
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