A tip from Michael Mann on how to handle scientific debate: Set up your email server so that it automatically rejects email from people who disagree with you

- Bishop Hill blog - Poisoning the well

...It appears, by the way, that [McIntyre] has been trying to break into our machine ("multiproxy"). Obviously, this character is looking for any little thing he can get ahold of...

The best that can be done is to ignore their desperate emails and, if they manage to slip something into the peer-reviewed literature, as in the case of Soon & Baliunas, deal w/ it as we did in that case--i.e., the Eos response to Soon et al---they were stung badly by that, and the bad press that followed.For those of you who haven't seen it, I'm forwarding an interesting email exchange from John Holdren of Harvard that  I got the other day. He summarized the whole thing very nicely, form an independent perspective...

Cheers,

mike

p.s. I'm setting up my email server so that it automatically rejects emails from the "usual suspects".  You might want to do the same. As they increasingly get automatic reject messages from the scientists, they'll start to get the picture...