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Group Demands REAL Investigation Into Mann
The Commonwealth Foundation in Harrisburg, Pa. does not trust Pennsylvania State University to investigate Climategate hockey sticker Michael Mann, because of the millions of dollars that his science research brings to the university.
The Commonwealth Foundation in Harrisburg, Pa. does not trust Pennsylvania State University to investigate Climategate hockey sticker Michael Mann, because of the millions of dollars that his research brings to the university. The foundation today released a 12-page policy brief which addresses Mann’s Climategate emails, the significance of his role, and why the university has a conflict of interest in investigating him. Commonwealth held a press conference today at the state capitol about their report:
The hockey stick controversy and Climategate emails reveal that Michael Mann may have committed significant and intentional scientific misconduct, including improper data manipulation, inappropriately shielding research methods and results from others, and engaging in a number of forms of retaliation against those who publicly challenge his research results.
Were scientific misconduct a criminal matter, the aforementioned facts might be said to constitute “probable cause” for a search warrant. Analogously, these facts provide probable cause for an investigation into Mann’s conduct at PSU.
Although PSU has announced that it will investigate Climategate, given Mann’s financial and reputational value to the university, and the likely embarrassment resulting from an adverse finding concerning his conduct, there is good reason to believe that a PSU-managed investigation might amount to little more than a whitewash.
Commonwealth Foundation goes on to recommend that the state General Assembly commission an external, independent investigation. Pennsylvania State Senate Education Committee Chairman Jeffrey Piccola has already promised Penn State that if its investigation is a whitewash, he will do one that isn’t.
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Thomas Flirten | 3.11.11 @ 5:24PM
In fact, there is no way to find out the truth about environmental impact of human activity or not. Scientists are not neutral most of the time. We will see the truth in 20 or 30 years, or later. But the evil thing is to capitalize everything for politics or profit-greedyness in these time.
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Sven Bergmann | 7.25.11 @ 4:53AM
Of course they have a conflict of interest in investigating him, if his research brings millions of dollarsto the university. Anyways, by now it is almost impossible to find out the truth about the environmental impact they have. Maybe some day, but not for now.
Dan for Solar Energy | 2.15.12 @ 7:51AM
I personally grow more and more convinced that the opposite is true...earth climate follows more or less predictable patterns...in the 70s it was global cooling, the french revolution may have been actually started by a freezing and starving crowd (Marie Antoinette's "Eat cake!! - though historically not correct), in London the Thames was frozen in June around 1850...
for me the error was not a phase of warming, but to connect man's (awful) pollution and a global trend...
the scientist will be freezing too in about 20-30 years...and they soon will start to be "send to the cold" - when this dogma cannot be upheld anymore...
and science is also kind of a religion...these scientist invested too much of their credibility to just turn around and say - I was wrong. All the power and influence their research brought them...no human will give up on that, only to be ridiculed...the last Global warming experts will have to die of age for this theory to die...
BUT: this theory was the beginning of a consciousness shift, stopping us from polluting our planet like Neanderthalers...so it is not all bad
my 2cts
Dan