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Ocean acoustic tomography, physical oceanographers, and scientific disagreement: An essay
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Physical Oceanographers have responding to ocean acoustic tomography with a wide variety of substandard rhetoric. After 30 years, this essay gives a response. What is a substandard argument? What is the nature of a valid, quality scientific argument? The essay builds from "Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement".
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- Dushaw, B. D. (2019). Ocean acoustic tomography in the North Atlantic. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 36, 183–202. https://doi.org/.10.1175/JTECH-D-18-0082.1
- Dushaw, B. D. (2022). Surprises in physical oceanography: Contributions from ocean acoustic tomography. Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 74 (2022), 33–67. https://doi.org/10.16993/tellusa.39
- Graham, P. (2008). How to disagree, PaulGraham.com, http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html. (For definitions or discussions of "ad hominem", "ipse dixit", or "straw man" arguments, Wikipedia is a good source. Also "Paul Graham (programmer)".)