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Climategate: Another Anniversary (never forget ….)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- November 27, 2020
[Editor Note: It was during the Thanksgiving weekend 11 years ago that the Climategate’s unsettling oeuvre was first being disseminated and analyzed. This post summarizes some remembrances from that period.]
“The conflict between the two ideas about how science should be conducted–a closed system dominated by gatekeepers, or a more chaotic but less hierarchical open system–is the dominant story of the [Climategate] emails over more than a decade.†– Fred Pierce, The Climate Files (2010), p. 13.
“There is no doubt that these emails are embarrassing and a public-relations disaster for science.†– Andrew Dessler, “Climate E-Mails Cloud the Debate,†December 10, 2009.
Climategate lives in infamy. Then, and now, it is a case study of agendas driving science rather than science driving agendas.
https://www.masterresource.org/climategate/climategate-11-anniversary/ (https://www.masterresource.org/climategate/climategate-11-anniversary/)