Climate change scientist Michael Mann fends off sceptic group's raid on emails

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/02/climate-change-michael-mann-emails?newsfeed=true

Climate change scientist Michael Mann fends off sceptic group's raid on emails

Judge revokes permission of sceptic thinktank American Tradition Institute to look at private University of Virginia emails

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 2 November 2011 02.25 EDT

The climate scientist Michael Mann has successfully fought off an attempt by a pro-industry thinktank to gain access to thousands of private emails.

After a day-long court hearing on Tuesday, a judge in Manassas, Virginia, granted Mann's petition to join a lawsuit against the American Tradition Institute, an industry-funded thinktank that promotes scepticism about man-made climate change.

In an email, Mann called the decision a "good day" for academic freedom: "I don't think there is any way to view this as anything other than a win for us, and for science more generally."

Judge Gaylord Finch also granted a petition from the University of Virginia, Mann's former employer, to revisit its earlier decision to let lawyers for the ATI have access to the emails before they were made public.

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[xchrom]

1. It's American 'Tradition' to deny science?

I guess.

One wonders how we ever managed to produce the likes alexander Graham Bell, though.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. Easy! We didn’t.

He was a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell#Early_years">Scotsman.

[xchrom]

3. Oy. I forget who is what.

The pit falls of old age.

[OKIsItJustMe]

4. When you think about it…

…a number of “America’s” great inventors were immigrants.

[xchrom]

5. Very true. Nt

[Kolesar]

6. The men who made the "atom bomb"

Jewish European physicists

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Bell: 57th Greatest Briton, 9th Greatest Canadian, and somewhere in the American top 100

http://www.beatlelinks.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8552
http://www.filibustercartoons.com/greatest%20Canadians.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/greatestamerican/top100/top100.html

Brings to mind Einstein's quote:

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

http://www.oxfordreference.com/pages/samplep-18.html