"Foolestroupe has a valid point. His posting is in the form of a discussion as opposed to personal attacks. Bravo.

"Inductive:
Attempts to discover 'new' things."

I believe this is called a hypothesis. When a hypothesis is formed an attempt is made to prove or disprove it.

However it could be subjective research or objective research.

Most of the research on global warming or climate change is objective.

The research is to prove global warming or climate change exists rather that to find out if it does or does not exist.

For example, when confronted with several tree ring data sets, a "researcher" chose the set that reinforces the existence of global warming rather than average them all out or rejecting the extremes.

Therefore his research was subjective rather than objective like GWBs WMD research that ignored any evidence that there were no WMDs.

To further obfuscate the issue, the researcher blocked access to the data and methods he used for 10 years. Why would an objective scientist do that?