But, here’s the great part: Nobody was able to identify the conflict of interest here, since “none (0) of the 331 authors disclosed COIs.”
That’s right: Out of 82 papers the authors analyzed in the meta-analysis, written between 1994 and 2023, absolutely zero of the 331 academics who had conflicts of interest disclosed them, despite the fact that the conflicts of interest are positively correlated with alarmism about anthropogenic climate change and hurricane strength.
“Since COI disclosures 27in other areas of research, such as bioscience, range from about 17% to 33%, we suspect that some authors had COIs that they did not disclose,” the authors of the study, published Feb. 18, added.
“To promote objectivity, transparency, and trust in climate science, journals that publish this research should clearly state that authors must disclose financial and non-financial COIs and provide clear processes for doing so.
“Scientific societies and journals should foster COI disclosure as a norm of professional ethics through policy development, education and peer modeling.”