October 2016 – Roger Pielke Jr.

Scientific Integrity in Anti-Doping

I have an essay out in Newsweek on the troubling case of Irish sprinter Steven Colvert, who was sanctioned for doping. A new paper suggests that the evidence base was, generously, a bit thin.

Anti-doping regulation faces a lot of challenges these days. Securing scientific integrity should surely be on that list.

Hurricanes: their Nature and Impacts on Society

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Thanks to my Dad (@RogerAPielkeSr), the out-of-print 1997 book that we co-authored on hurricanes is available as a PDF. You can download it here. It holds up pretty well, I think, and the figures are old-school but good. Check it out!