Feel free to doubt climate change: just don’t deny it
After months of controversy, the University of East Anglia climate unit was exonerated last week over the leaked emails affair. Science Editor Robin McKie says there are lessons to be learned – but those who call themselves sceptics must address their own intellectual dishonesty.
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In reality, few groups of people would submit themselves to that kind of degradation. Yet somehow we are supposed to believe that scientists, the most sceptical of all professions, were doing that. As Palmer says: “People who believe they are involved in a global conspiracy simply don’t understand the process of science and the mindset of its practitioners.”