Son of Log Lady !
Posted on 07/02/2010 8:50:16 AM PDT by Tribune7
A little whitewash and Pennsylvania's taxpayer's connection to Climategate has disappeared. At least that's what the Penn State University administrators are hoping.
Penn State, which uses state appropriations for about 10 percent of its $2.5 billion budget, cleared Dr. Michael Mann of any scientific misconduct relating to the scandal.
Mann heads the university's Earth System Science Center.
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The reasons it cited for coming to this conclusion were -- what you are about to read is not a joke remember -- "This level of success in proposing research, and obtaining funding to conduct it, clearly places Mann among the most respected scientists in his field" and "Had Dr. Mann's conduct been outside the range of accepted practices, it would have been impossible for him to receive so many awards"
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So, it seems to say that when one is well paid to lie it is not lying.
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Wake up Alumni. Vote with your pocketbooks.
Another one to cross of my list for classes or college enrollment for my daughter.
“Had Dr. Mann’s conduct been outside the range of accepted practices, it would have been impossible for him to receive so many awards”
OH-MY-GOD! I’m speechless!
It’s all about the money.
"This level of success in proposing research, and obtaining funding to conduct it, clearly places Mann among the most respected scientists in his field" and "Had Dr. Mann's conduct been outside the range of accepted practices, it would have been impossible for him to receive so many awards"
It's the kind of stuff that makes satire so difficult.
TRANSLATION: Lying well and conning the American public is perfectly acceptable in the pursuit of the leftist agenda. As long as you get PAID with tax dollars, that is!!!
Oh, my checkbook has been slammed shut for a lo o o o ong time.
Not so very long ago, one had to do great things to get awards. Now that every kid playing T-Ball is an All-Star, the tail is officially wagging the dog. Give someone an award and pretend that makes him great. (See: Nobel Peace Prize, Gore, Obama, Arafat, et al.)
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“This level of success in proposing research, and obtaining funding to
conduct it, clearly places Mann among the most respected scientists in his field”
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In other words, “it’s all about the money”.
“This level of success in proposing research, and obtaining funding to conduct it, clearly places Mann among the most respected scientists in his field” and “Had Dr. Mann’s conduct been outside the range of accepted practices, it would have been impossible for him to receive so many awards”
I think he deserves the Al Gore global warming, massage and veracity award. He can pick it up in Stockholm.
So he picks research topics based on what is politically in vogue, gets money from political government sources to do his research, thus proving that the research results are correct?
That pretty much describes what is wrong in the world of Academia, doesn’t it? You couldn’t make this stuff up!
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