[Intolerant in NJ]

Actually, Wegman (a very prominent Statistician that the NAS had review Mann's work) showed that that appears to be exactly what has happened...Yes, I think Wegman was the name of the statistician claiming essentially that the peer-reviews being done on the GW work was "incestuous" (my term) - wanted independent panels loaded with statisticians, maybe a bit self-serving since that's his field, but his point that those in GW research were environmentalists and thus perhaps not all that strong in applied statistics, requiring some additonal scrutinization of their fuzzy findings, seems valid.....

[lepton]

claiming essentially that the peer-reviews being done on the GW work was "incestuous"

Oddly enough, that was the word I came up with too...and I'm not particularly prone to vulgarities.