'all SERIOUS scientists agree' and so forth; so why do these people not want all the data examined?
This week four groups, whose boards represent a distinctly liberal worldview and who oppose scrutiny of taxpayer-funded science by academics, asked the University of Virginia to disregard its agreement before the court with American Tradition Institute to provide the records of former climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann, which belong to the public. The groups, led by the far-left Union of Concerned Scientists, sent a letter to University president Teresa Sullivan on Tuesday complaining the agreement gives ATI’s in-house lawyers “needless access” to documents its Environmental Law Center requested, and the agreement “threatens the principles of academic freedom protecting scholarly research.”
There's an amount of 'those nasty liberals!' here, but the base information is disgusting from people who talk about 'scholarly research' and 'academic freedom'. One of the basic requirements of science is that experiments have to be repeatable by others than the one who originally did it, and the information has to be released for review; not just by some selected group but- unless something like actual security needs are involved- any interested party, which includes the general public. This "These people don't need to see all the research, all the data" crap stinks of coverup.
Which would fit right in with a lot of Mann, supporters, wouldn't it?
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