"Hockey Stick" Climate Scientist Protected from Email Disclosures
A climate scientist widely known for the "hockey stick" graph of recent temperatures has won the right to keep his e-mail private amid unsubstantiated allegations he might have rigged research data.
Virginia's top court ruled Thursday that Michael Mann's electronic communications, generated while he was a professor at the University of Virginia, are a shielded, "proprietary" work product.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/...
Virginia's top court ruled Thursday that Michael Mann's electronic communications, generated while he was a professor at the University of Virginia, are a shielded, "proprietary" work product.
Read the full story here:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/...
M.Mann is also in a case in British Columbia where the onus of proof may be the other way round.
" Subsequent research by Mann and others has replicated his general conclusions."
Actually the hockey stick is going out of fashion even by the center of alarmism, the UN IPCC, as it has been shown to be wrong. There is evidence that Mann selected the data and chose the statistical technique to fit the conclusion he wanted. What data did he have? How were selections made? Unlike the situation in proper science, all this base data is secret.
I am open to correction about U of Virginia, but Penn State is certainly a public institution. Public facilities, salaries, institutions - yet not subject to the freedom of information laws which would allow the public to benefit.