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Global Warming Nontroversy of the Day

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SixDegrees11/20/2009 1:13:45 pm PST

re: #235 saik0max0r

There is a police investigation under way and an official statement from the university that their servers were broken into. Most people would consider that sufficient “proof.”

Fine, I’ll concede this for the sake of argument, as long as you concede the fact that the conversations in the email regarding dodging deleting emails, putting pressure on editors and cherry picking are pretty shady if not criminal for what’s supposed to be a scientific body working in the public interest.

If we can agree on that, let’s stop shooting the messenger.

I don’t think the contents of the material can be trusted in any way at this point without further validation. As things now stand, there is no guarantee they haven’t been altered or edited in some way.