Marcott’s Hockey Stick Mystery: Why Was It Missing In His PhD Thesis? ‘It seems sharp uptick wasn’t in the thesis paper Marcott defended for his PhD, but is in paper submitted to Science’
Marcott's thesis has a series of diagrams in an identical style as the Science article. The proxy datasets are identical...the diagrams in the thesis lack the closing uptick of the Science' -- In addition to difference in closing uptick, important reconstruction versions were at negative values in the closing portion of the thesis graphic, while they were at positive values in the closing portion of the Science graphic'