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Shawn Redden writes: > At 8:54 AM -0500 2/6/10, Louis Proyect wrote: > > > >Here, btw, is a good analysis of the hanky-panky at East Anglia: > > While I appreciate the article, the words "East Anglia" don't appear > as anything more than a throw away point in the introduction from > which the author quickly pivots away. > > Hardly 'less than honest' 'hanky-panky' (phrases chosen for their > insinuation of triviality) limited to "hoarding data" or "smoothing a > graph", these e-mails - thousands of them - clearly and obviously > reveal a conscious and willful effort to distort the factual record > for PR purposes on behalf of Al Gore, Chevron, Monsanto, T. Boone > Pickens, General Electric, and the rest of the global warming > enthusiasts and Green fanatics. > > Solidarity, > Shawn > Shawn, Here is a manual from the mathematical literature on the arts of "data smoothing" http://tinyurl.com/yzggbya If data smoothing is a scientific conspiracy, then apparently it is a conspiracy that is being carried out in the open in the scientific literature, that you do not need to sleuth through the stolen emails of the scientists at East Anglia to expose. The fact that capitalists like Chevron, Monsanto etc and reformist charlatans like Al Gore, Kevin Rudd and the Corporate Greens have attempted to turn this or that crisis of capitalism to their advantage does not make those crises are any less real. In this situation, the fraud that needs to be exposed is not some childish conspiracy in the scientific literature. The real hoax that needs to be exposed by the left is the one perpetrated by the quacks like Al Gore and Kevin Rudd, that there are reformist solutions to the environmental and other crises of capitalism within the framework of endless accumulation that they seek to maintain. You would also do well to reread the link posted by Lou earlier on the fallacy of placing a minus sign wherever the bourgeoisie put a plus. Lajany Otum ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
