FirmhandKY -> RE: Canada covers "Climate-gate" (12/5/2009 8:58:20 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Brain ... I still smell something fishy going on so I am not changing my mind just yet. If what happened here is true, it is unprecedented. I've never heard of such a thing before, and the entire scientific theory like this being discredited because of dishonesty? Not so fast, I've never seen this happen before so I am just going to wait and see what happens. Brain, I rarely respond to any of your post, but I wanted to on this one. First, as I've said before, it is most likely that it wasn't a fraud in which a bunch of people sat down, and planned out everything. It was most likely one of those things that was a bit here, a bit there, some people getting additional funding and grants, and a little more recognization in their field ... so that after several years, an entire edifice had been built, which their reputations and lives depending upon defending. Sometimes the biggest mistakes in our lives happen bit, by bit, until one day we wake up and find out that we are wanted in 6 states ... or 4 countries .... I suspect that's what happened here. But, just to prove that "scientific" quakery and frauds aren't all that uncommon ... 10 Scientific Frauds that Rocked the World. Scientific misconduct (A pretty good Wikipedia summary of the pressures that lead to fraud) DDT: A Case Study in Scientific Fraud scientific fraud Firm
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