re: #98 LudwigVanQuixote

NO they had to for the sake of form because of the politics and false allegations brought by the climate gate scum bags. There is not a single worst accusation that can be made about a scientist than that he or she cooked their data. It is always taken seriously if the charges are public. The scum bags throw it out willy nilly. After all, killing scientist careers would be a serious “win” for them. Of course Mann and his work is not only kosher, but because of previous politicking against him, he had already been given substantially more scrutiny than most other scientists.

No one expected to find anything un kosher. Of course they did not.

The problem is that it’s assymetric warfare: The Scientists have to be vindicated every single time. If the Deniers ever do catch an AGW scientist who cooked his data, then they’ll use it to claim media respectability and they’ll become twice as hard to beat.