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2017-07-06 Science & Technology
Michael Mann screws the pooch in Canadian court
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Posted by badanov 2017-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 1) I bet Mark Steyn is one happy camper all of a sudden.
2) This Feb. 20th 'deadline' was missed over four months ago, and we're just hearing about it now?
Posted by Raj 2017-07-06 01:39||   2017-07-06 01:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Prominent alarmist shockingly defies judge and refuses to surrender data for open court examination.

Back in 10th grade Chemistry, our teacher Mr G taught us that when we wrote a paper, we needed to present not just our conclusions but *all* our data and calculations. Not exactly revolutionary stuff, it was just the way science was done. Anyone who said, as Mr. Mann has, "I can't show you the data, you'll just try to find something wrong with it" would have been laughed out of class.

It warms my heart to see this fraudulent climate nonsense unraveling. One day, "global warming" will be recognized as the biggest scam since the Piltdown Man.
Posted by SteveS 2017-07-06 02:07||   2017-07-06 02:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Either 1. he not longer has the data (a common problem in climate science).

2. He never had the data in the first place.

3. The data he had was fake and would be revealed as such.

Mann is a nasty character and charlatan, and I hope he gets slammed by the courts.
Posted by phil_b 2017-07-06 02:41||   2017-07-06 02:41|| Front Page Top

#4 I call it climate Lysenkoism for a reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism

The term Lysenkoism can also be used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-07-06 05:51||   2017-07-06 05:51|| Front Page Top

#5 phil_b, embrace the liberating power of "AND".

None of your choices is exclusive and 2 & 3 are kissing cousins.
Posted by AlanC 2017-07-06 07:29||   2017-07-06 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 although the PS post is recent, there is no actual event that I can see

Mann may have committed contempt and he may be contemptible but no court has yet found him 'in contempt'.

So this is actually a prediction not a report.
Posted by lord garth 2017-07-06 07:43||   2017-07-06 07:43|| Front Page Top

#7 The Medieval Warm Period has always been an inconvenient truth
Posted by European Conservative 2017-07-06 08:14||   2017-07-06 08:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Same Canadian court system that just gave Omar Khadr over $10 million? Watch them lock Dr. Ball up and award Mann some sort of medal along with enormous damages...
Posted by M. Murcek 2017-07-06 08:34||   2017-07-06 08:34|| Front Page Top

#9 you'll just try to find something wrong with it

I'm no scientist but that sounds like peer review to me.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-07-06 12:51||   2017-07-06 12:51|| Front Page Top

#10 Isn't that the whole point of 'peer review'?

I often participate in 'code reviews' where we 'peer review' each others code. Even though it can be painful and embarrassing it is exceedingly beneficial to all.

I've also seen code reviews used as a bludgeon to force people to one way of thinking. Even had one manager tell me "Nobody uses Object Oriented Programming" and I was forced to rewrite it using non-OO techniques. I think that is the kind of thing going on in some of these pro-climate-change 'peer-reviewsbullying'....
Posted by CrazyFool 2017-07-06 14:21||   2017-07-06 14:21|| Front Page Top

#11 In climate science, peer review is invariably pal review.

Which is why a red team/blue team approach is urgently needed.
Posted by phil_b 2017-07-06 19:48||   2017-07-06 19:48|| Front Page Top

#12 There is no data just made up charts and graphs.
Posted by Airandee 2017-07-06 21:08||   2017-07-06 21:08|| Front Page Top

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