Joel Shore says
…..”That being said, Mann’s work was clearly path-breaking in that particular field”…
I’m not exactly sure if this was the first blatant fraud in climate science.
Mann’s ‘Hide The Decline’ is exactly the same scientific fraud as the ‘Piltdown Man’. In both cases selected parts of two different items were spliced together to provide a misleading scientific conclusion.
If this is not scientific fraud then what is?
I have a feeling that if the Piltdown Man was important to the “cause” then Joel could be relied on to find some merit in that fraud as well.
Joel also says
“I haven’t taken any position on the firing of editors”.
Referring to concerted underhand efforts by members of the team to get an editor fired for daring to publish papers that conflict with the cause.
Well my position (and the position of anyone who values academic freedom) is to despise those creeps involved in destroying open science.
Hiding data, cut and paste graphs,bribery, behind the scenes lobbying are all hallmarks of the clique that determine IPCC policy.
