Thursday, July 22, 2010

Gore faces new allegations of sexual misconduct at hotels | OregonLive.com
Kalee Kreider, a spokeswoman for Gore, declined to comment on the new allegations. She previously said that Gore "unequivocally and emphatically denied" Hagerty's accusation.
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In both cases, the hotel management told staff not to talk about it and the women did not make police reports, the magazine said.
[Remember, Gore isn't merely accused of making an off-color joke in Portland; he may have committed a felony] | OregonLive.com
The veracity of the complaint could be compromised, said Broward County Sheriff's Sgt. Adam Hofstein, supervisor of the special victims unit that handles sex crimes in Fort Lauderdale. "Your forensic evidence is waning, the time weighs on people's recollections and their credibility."

Yet, Hofstein said, in a case like this, "We are still going to take all the steps. You are still within the statute of limitations, you still have a felony."
The passing of a full-contact scientist | OregonLive.com
In his seminars at Stanford, Schneider would sit one graduate student after another in front of a camera and pepper them with questions: How do you know? Why does that matter? Are you certain about that?

Schneider called the reluctance of scientists and citizens to enter into the debate over climate change a "mutually reinforcing and devastating behavior."
Stephen Schneider—Death of an Unrepentant Hypocrite
Professor Schneider posed as an academic but hated tough questions and debate. He used Stanford's lawyers to try and censor our documentary when we interviewed him about his scientific flip-flopping. As a small film production company we had to remove his interview from our film. When I tried to push him further at the Copenhagen Climate Conference—he called an armed security guard to have our cameras switched off.

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