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In a 2025 paper in the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, I documented one of the clearest examples of self-correction failure in climate research that I’ve encountered in nearly three decades of research.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

But it is also ambitious, unpredictable, forward looking and moving, and as the vice presidency of a woman with a Jamaican father and Indian mother demonstrates, capable of profound self-correction.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024

Some experts see these moves as a self-correction from the bloated workforces created during the pandemic, when tech companies such as Amazon and Shopify prospered during months when other businesses suffered.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2022

And so the games are left to do some self-correction.

From Washington Post • May 20, 2022

Keble had lifted his pupil's thoughts above mere dry and unintelligent orthodoxy, and Froude had entered with earnest purpose into Church ways of practical self-discipline and self-correction.

From The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by Church, R. W. (Richard William)