Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Trust Us; We're Liars

East Anglia University has completed an "independent review" of the leaked "Climategate" emails.  They've found that the scientists did nothing wrong.  The key to this conclusion is the following claim:

The review found, "crucially, the e-mails cannot always be relied upon as evidence of what actually occurred, nor indicative of actual behavior that is extreme, exceptional or unprofessional."

In other words: the report's authors suggest that you should go on trusting these very scientists with a scientific and political project estimated to cost trillions of dollars --- because, hey, no one can really prove that they actually did any of the "extreme, exceptional or unprofessional" things we know they talked about doing.

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