Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:05:31 -0800 (PST) From: marlon menezes <[email protected]>
Folks like Gabriel and Mario seem to be quite out of touch, if not ignorant on how research is conducted and verified in academia and industry. Bottom line is that one does not rely on a scientist's or company's integrity or sincerity, but rather, on the impersonal collective exchange and verification of results to determine what works and what doesn't. Mario responds: Once again, we see the facile truth-twisting, deliberate distortions of facts, and false personal finger-pointing that comes so easily to Marlon. The facts in the emails disclosed by the whistleblower at East Anglia College clearly showed that like minded scientists were conspiring to with-hold scientific data, had actually destroyed raw data, were planning to destroy data if forced by law to disclose it, and were actively demeaning and obstructing scientists who disagreed with them. As far as actual results are concerned, we have seen global warming on Pluto and Mars without a single human anywhere in sight, and major climate change modelers working with the IPCC warning that their models are seriously out of kilter, had been wrong for over a decade and that we may see global cooling for the next two decades.
