Original sentence: " (John Maddox, a former editor of the journal Nature, quoted by David Adam in The Guardian, 28 January 2005).At the same time, some of the scientists whose work is summarized in these reports have accused the IPCC of bias.IPCC reports are often cited   as supporting material.Meteorologist and professor Richard Lindzen also has said that "Picking holes in the IPCC is crucial.The notion that if you’re ignorant of something and somebody comes up with a wrong answer, and you have to accept that because you don’t have another wrong answer to offer is like faith healing, it’s like quackery in medicine – if somebody says you should take jelly beans for cancer and you say that’s stupid, and he says, well can you suggest something else and you say, no, does that mean you have to go with jelly beans.The reports have been influential in forming national and international responses to climate change
Edited sentence: " (John Maddox, a former highly-respected editor of the journal Nature, quoted by David Adam in The Guardian, 28 January 2005).At the same time, a few of the scientists whose work is summarized in these reports have accused the IPCC of bias.Meteorologist and professor Richard Lindzen also has said that "picking holes in the IPCC is crucial".The fact that the IPCC reports are widely cited   as supporting material is ample evidence of the respect they have earned within the climate science community.The reports have been highly influential in forming national and international responses to climate change; they are the baseline for the debate