Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues 341
eldavojohn writes "A letter from Representative Edward Markey outlines Ken Cuccinelli's latest civil investigative demand targeting 39 people instead of just Michael Mann. You may recall that the original investigation was quashed by a judge, but the latest request demands records from people seemingly unrelated to Mann, including an Indian glaciologist. The Bad Astronomer calls Cuccinelli out in a similar manner and lists Cuccinelli's doubts about Mann's papers, including, 'Specifically, but without limitation, some of the conclusions of the papers demonstrate a complete lack of rigor regarding the statistical analysis of the alleged data, meaning that the result reported lacked statistical significance without a specific statement to that effect.' The school that hosted the research announced the new investigation, and the Union of Concerned Scientists accuses him of harassing scientists."
Somewhat off topic here, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Rub it in why don't you.
Re:Back to the actual Science... (Score:3, Funny)
Any questions?
1. What turned you into an evil, anti-god, pinko communist?
2. Why do you hate our economy so much?
3. Why can't you understand that the biosphere should just pull itself up by its own bootstraps?
Re:I Left Out The Best Part (Score:5, Funny)
He wants us to revert to stone age tools and pray to the Dark Lord and eat our babies and top-post on Internet forums! I heard it on the Interwebs from someone with no expertise in any field relevant to global warming so it must be true.
Re:A justified investigation by the Attorney Gener (Score:3, Funny)
> Your first point seems to be an adhominem argument.
No, it is an "appeal to authority" argument. If I maligned the author's character while avoiding the actual issue, that would be an ad hominem argument.
>> So investigate it. That's what scientists do, that's what peer review is for.
> peer review is not intended to catch fraud
But it often does. And you ignored half the sentence - competing scientists are definitely out to disprove each other. That's the whole point of being a scientist, discovering things nobody else understood.
Re:No the way to do it (Score:3, Funny)
Sure, this movie had a message, but the message isn't "Let's kill some of those guys who disagree with us!"
No, the message was “Let’s make jokes about how funny it is to kill those guys who disagree with us! But it’s okay, because we’re just joking. What’s the matter, people? Can’t you take a joke?”
Of course, I can take a joke. I can also play a joke on them in return... I went around and turned on all the lights in my whole house for a couple of hours. Ha ha. It’s a funny joke. Really!
it's all cognitive dissonance from here on out (Score:3, Funny)