The fact that the author uncritically starts from the position that the inquiries cleared the CRU people of scientific misconduct undermines their position. It has been clearly established that the inquiries failed to investigate the misconduct, said they weren’t authorized to look for misconduct, and uncritically accepted statements by the scientists that are demonstrably false. Failng to recognize that the investigations represent nothing more than a few coats of whitewash means the lessons have not been learned and the misconduct will continue just without an email trail to be leaked.
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