‘Fact Checks’ by Non-Experts Are Shutting Down Genuine Scientific Inquiry

The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty as a seagull flies past in New York Harbor on June 2, 2017. Michael Heiman/Getty Images

Commentary

We recently published a new climate change report in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (RAA). The nearly two dozen co-authors of our paper are experts in solar physics and climate science from 14 countries. We were looking at the role of the sun in climate change.