It may be shocking for these academics to learn this...but they are state employees. They rank just like the guy at the state troopers division, or the state parks division, or the state forestry department. I don’t think they’ve grasped this. And if the state ever gets in serious money woes trouble...they will cut academics just as much as the state troopers.
Course, if the Attorney General wanted the football coach to hand over his ‘play-book’....we might be in a pretty good argument here.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute will bestow the Julian Simon Award on Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick for their efforts in debunking Mann's hockey stick at CEI's 2010 Dinner, June 17 at Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill 400 New Jersey Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001.
Cuccinelli is a great American! I’m proud to say that I worked on the McDonnell/Bolling/Cuccinelli campaign.
Public institution, public dollars, public information.
Puck the UVA!
Bump! ;-)
The lead: “Scientific debates should be played out in the academic arena,” insists University of Virginia environmental sciences professor David Carr.
But the same folks keep telling me there is no debate - the science is settled.
So why appeal to “scientific debate” as an excuse for evading an investigation of Michael Mann when we’ve been told over and over again that the science is settled, there is no debate?
“Scientific debates should be played out in the academic arena”
True enough, but this is an irrelevant diversion here.
We are talking about economic fraud-for-pay in the criminal arena.
NASA accused of 'Climategate' stalling
Global Warming on Free Republic
The problem with this is that the law isn’t about scientific malpractice but billing fraud. I find it very hard to believe that Mann or his secretary made any serious billing mistakes. The scientific malpractice case needs to be sorted out some other way.
if they were true to their word, they would put every file on their server read only on the web.
Carr claims Cuccinelli is attempting to “drown out” scientific debate.” Others have accused the AG of conducting a “witch hunt,” engaging in “McCarthyite” tactics, and “restricting academic freedom.”
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I see they’re projecting again.
About time we see the end of “Mann-made” global warming!!
True, but it's not being played out in the academic arena, it's being played out in the political field. By the time Michael Mann's fraud has been positively proved in academia we could easily be into the second decade of massive rationing and taxes with the side benefit of government intrusion into every facet of our lives in the name of the environment.