[Sub-Driver]

Academia, what a joke.......

[pabianice]

Below is a list of reasons the International Climate Hoax Group is different from the old Supreme Soviet:

1.... uh...

[cranked]

This was a given being the vast majority of academia is liberal/progressive.

[henkster]

Hmmm....academics passing on the sins of another academic. And imagine that! They absolved him! Kind of like doctors ruling on malpractice of other doctors, lawyers’ disciplinary commissions, cops investigating cops....

Nothing to see here, just move along....

[topfile]

I think they stopped teaching integrity some time ago.

[Dick Bachert]

Gee, you — you — you don’t suppose Penn State gets any FEDERAL GRANT MONEY do you???

NAAAAAAHHHHHH...

[JPG]

the fox reports on the hen house: No problems here, all is well. No further action needed. Burp.

[Redleg Duke]

Academia...circling the wagons.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

PSU...what a joke.

Pennsylvania State Legislature (you know...our overwhelmingly Dem body?) will they look into this malfeasance and outright fraud at one of our state schools?

I know, I know...I crack myself up sometimes too.

[a fool in paradise]

Whitewash

[a fool in paradise]

"An academic board of inquiry has largely cleared a noted Pennsylvania State University climatologist of scientific misconduct, but a second panel will convene to determine whether his behavior undermined public faith in the science of climate change"

So he did nothing wrong and now they want to see if what he did do woke up the sleeping masses.

Two words. Peer Review of work is needed.

Can the "experiment" be repeated by a whole new team without communication with the tainted pool?

Can we run the model in reverse and "guess" what the temperatures are going to be at different points in the past 200 years?

[equalitybeforethelaw]

In truth both PSU, Mann and the NYT truly qualify as teabaggers. Teabaggers as I understand the expression describes a “ball sucker”. A more apt description of this inbred northeastern elite circle jerk of a commission could not be found. The funny thing is that probably all the participants are actual teabaggers. I believe this is what they call projection?

[Raycpa]

This was an amazingly brilliant PR announcement.

They create 4 potential wrongs he may have done knowing that 3 of the 4 are ridiculous. This provides face saving for the university.

They absolve him of three of the 4 and can declare that he is mostly cleared so that the public stops watching and moves on. Heck he is 3/4 pure, who among us can claim that we are 3/4 pure?

But those scientists who believe Mann has done irreparable harm, there is still a problem and Mann is it. Mann will continue to be under pressure from his peers and this second investigation will stand aside while Mann’s peers continue to take him apart and he resigns. Then this new committee will announce his guilt.

[a fool in paradise]

But the Penn State inquiry board said the term “trick” is used by scientists and mathematicians to refer to an insight that solves a problem. “The so-called ‘trick’ was nothing more than a statistical method used to bring two or more different kinds of data sets together in a legitimate fashion by a technique that has been reviewed by a broad array of peers in the field,” the panel said.

Also there is the "Journal of Irreproducible Results" article on how to choose the right type of graph paper to produce the results you want (random data can be made to appear linear with circular graphs, runaway numbers level off with logrithmic paper, etc.).

http://komplexify.com/epsilon/2009/02/03/the-right-graph-paper/

[pallis]

“...faith in the science of climate change...”

Great way to put it! Global warming is a faith. The real damage is what global warming is doing to science.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Call 60 Minutes.

[The Comedian]

"Thieves Declare Thief's Honor In Tact"

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[wildbill]

“....a second panel will convene to determine whether his behavior undermined public faith in the science of climate change, the university said Wednesday.”

Does this have the smell of a religious inquiry for spreading heretical beliefs to anyone besides me?

[GloriaJane]

"An academic board of inquiry has largely cleared a noted Pennsylvania State University climatologist of scientific misconduct"

"faculty board did not look into the science of climate change itself, the university said in announcing its results."

Oh Please! If they didn't look into the science, then how could they clear the man of cheating the science?

Looks like just another fraud and hoax against the public is being covered up with cow dooky.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

...whether his behavior undermined public faith in the science of climate change, the university said Wednesday.

Hooo Hooo Hooo Hooo, Haaa Haaa Haaa Haaa, Heee Heee Heee Heee!

Not hardly.

[grey_whiskers]

The plural of IPCC reports is not data.

Cheers!