Calls for open data adjudicator to combat ‘disinformation’

There's a splendid irony in Stephan Lewandowsky calling for rigour in data handling, in view of his own incompetence in this area. In one of his papers, the ages of the participants ranged from 5 to 32757. When this was pointed out to him, at his own blog, he took no action. It was almost two years before a correction was published. Remarkably, if you download the data set now from Bristol University, these obvious errors are still there in the archived data, uncorrected. Since these numbers are obviously wrong, what confidence can a reader have that any of his other numbers are correct? It is hardly surprising that an individual of the calibre of Stephan Lewandowsky is opposed to open data.