Climategate

[tegdoh]

The climate conspiracy theory, in a nutshell:

1. A talented, motivated, highly mathematically able individual spends something on the order of a decade or more as a lowly, poor undergraduate, graduate student, and postdoc to obtain the “climate scientist union card

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[chococoffeekiss]

assloads of cash

That just made my morning. XD

[tegdoh]

I must be doin' it wrong. No one has ever offered me assloads of cash to be a scientist. :(

[shimotsuki]

Oh, thank you for explaining it so clearly! Now I understand!

;P

(I like #1, too. Also #3. Because of course it never would have occurred to these people that they might be able to make money somewhere.)

[tegdoh]

I find it amusing* how little the AGW conspiracists understand academia in general and science in particular. We are, in general, an arrogant, competitive lot, and if there were even a whiff of something fishy going on, some lab somewhere would be all over it in hopes of proving the competition not only wrong, but happily humiliating them in the process.

Just think "cold fusion."

*that is, it would be amusing if it weren't so damned infuriating.