Crovitz on Anonymity :: The Future of Capitalism

On the broader question of climate change science, the group-think suggested by the emails is bad for the scientific process, and as Thomas Kuhn pointed out in his classic The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, it's often a precursor to a paradigm shift that, when it comes, is adamantly resisted at first. Just ask Galileo.

Climategate and Scientific Journal Chicanery - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Zorita evidently expects to be punished by reviewers and journal editors for his call for scientific honesty. It will be interesting to see many more researchers will now step forward to discuss the subtle and not so subtle biasing of climate change research. Stay tuned.

Challenge will leave Turnbull’s head in the sand | Daily Telegraph Piers Akerman Blog

And new evidence there is plenty.

Serious doubts have arisen from the tsunami of leaked emails from the people at the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit which reveal a culture of fraud, manipulation, deceit and personal vindictiveness to rival anything in a John le Carre or John Grisham thriller.

Climategate: let the investigation begin

The Wizard of Gore (as in Albert, Jr.) does share some characteristics of the original: He seeks fame, notoriety, fortune, or whatever, through the age-old mechanism of fraud.