What would have been a lot cheaper to do is to rent warehouse space to store his files and tapes. For a hundred bucks a month he should have been able to get climate controlled storage space somewhere.
Yea, I keep forgetting this is academia.
I like the suggestion above to put everything concerning GW on hold until the data can be reproduced then I bet somehow the raw data mysteriously appears.
I respect your playing Devil's Advocate. Cost or not there can not be any credible rationale to destroy the only raw data one has that took millions of dollars to collect. The real question is how was the data peer reviewed if scientists were not on site? How could any concurrent data study be done when the raw data the other scientists were given was in fact slightly to heavily cooked?
This whole event raises thousands of questions and demands review of all scientists that did the supposed scientific peer review.
What would have been a lot cheaper to do is to rent warehouse space to store his files and tapes. For a hundred bucks a month he should have been able to get climate controlled storage space somewhere.
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Compare that to the tens of millions of pounds/dollars of grant money they’ve gotten over the years.
They’re lying.