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Allow me to clarify....All scientists are people. There are honest people, people that make mistakes and people thyat are also subject to corruption.

Jumble up those variables and both points happen.


I could not have said it better myself. It's just a fact of life.

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become part of "the science"


I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that if scientific data is published and cited frequently that it must then be held as the truth? Science has been wrong before (stop press). Because of the progressive nature of science, this is not a problem.

If the UN IPCC relied so heavily on data that was potentially suspect (and we don't know that it is, and we also don't know if the data HAS been lost) then more fool them. No one forced them to do so.

This expectation of infallibility from the scientific community as a whole is unrealistic.

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