Informath
Peer-reviewed publications
"Calibration of a radiocarbon age", Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 19: 345–350 (2012). doi: 10.5194/npg-19-345-2012.
"The fraud allegation against some climatic research of Wei-Chyung Wang", Energy & Environment, 18: 985–995 (2007). doi: 10.1260/095830507782616913. Remarks.
"Defence of planetary conjunctions for early Chinese chronology is unmerited", Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 10: 142–147 (2007).
"Grape harvest dates are poor indicators of summer warmth", Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 87: 255–256 (2007). doi: 10.1007/s00704-006-0197-9. Remarks.
"Radiocarbon dates from Iron Age Gordion are confounded", Ancient West & East, 3: 100–103 (2004).
"Volcanic ash retrieved from the GRIP ice core is not from Thera", Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 4, 1097 (2003). doi: 10.1029/2003GC000608.
"Why early-historical radiocarbon dates downwind from the Mediterranean are too early", Radiocarbon, 44: 225–237 (2002). Corrigenda. Remarks.
"Astro-historiographic chronologies of early China are unfounded", East Asian History, 23: 61–68 (2002).
Short tutorials
"Basics of radiocarbon dating" (2013-10-20).
"Disputes in statistical analyses" (2007-02-02).
"Is a line trending upward?" (2006-12-10).
Op-eds and similar
"My thwarted attempt to tell of Libor shenanigans", Financial Times, 2012-07-27. Director’s Cut. Responses.
"How scientific is climate science?", Wall Street Journal, 2011-04-05. Director’s Cut.
Letters to The Economist.
Other stuff
"Contest: identify trend-driven time series"—prize is $100 000.
"Statistical analyses of surface temperatures in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report" (2014).
"Tree-ring data at Queen's University Belfast"—using the UK Freedom of Information Act to get scientific data.
"The Gillberg affair"—a medical research scandal in Sweden (working draft, 2007).
"Anatolian tree-ring studies are untrustworthy" (manuscript, 2006).
A cheque for $2.56+$0.32 from D.E. Knuth—computer science reward.
"A 95-year corporate copyright is not constitutional"—for the USA.
About the author: I used to do mathematical research and financial trading on Wall Street and in the City of London; since 1995, I have been studying independently.
