Rich Ahlgrim said on Climategate: hide the decline - codifiedNovember 25, 2009 at 9:00 am |
If I wrote code like this I would be facing jail time (I am a finiancial programmer).
This is criminal
Having worked as a research assistant at Columbia University, the only thing that surprises me is the childish language and the tone of all the emails. Scholarship is corrupt to the core and that's why I decided never to get a PHD.
The number one corruption is that no thesis is approved for research unless the research passes a political litmus test. Translation: Unless you already have a conclusion in mind that does not seriously detract from that of your colleagues, you have no hope of being published.
Now, I am published (only one paper), but it is in the field of Philosophical History, it did not require any grant money, and it passed the political litmus test among Orientalists detracting from those whose background is Occidental. Translation: the paper is perceived as "progressive" so it is good to go.
Of course it's a bad idea to base policy upon modern scholarship in highly controversial areas. Unless proposed research is designed to meet, substantiate, or reflect progressive ideals, you haven't got a chance.
Mainstream scholarship in recent history has got some very obvious things dead wrong because of progressive politics. Just as we heard all the lies about imminent O-Zone disaster to racial integration increasing property value (believe what you will about the social merit of integration, the economic is quite obvious), they are wrong again about yet another one.
However, their arrogance is astonishing in the email and programming notes. It should be no surprise they fudge evidence and conclusions–that'
Context:
" Around 1996, I became aware of how corrupt and ideologically driven current climate research can be. A major researcher working in the area of climate change confided in me that the factual record needed to be altered so that people would become alarmed over global warming. He said, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period."
Dr. David Deming (University of Oklahoma)
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