{"id":1503,"date":"2009-12-06T18:43:04","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T23:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2010-07-18T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T01:07:44","slug":"the-scientists-have-been-tied-up-and-gagged-in-the-back-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The scientists have been tied up and gagged in the back room&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The unravelling of the AGW fraud continues to provide an entertaining mix of high drama and low comedy.   My favorite recent entry on the CRU mob is a screed from a professor of  mathematics in Canada: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quadrant.org.au\/blogs\/doomed-planet\/2009\/12\/skeptics-in-wonderland\">&#8220;All of my colleagues have had to endure these bullies and criminals for a very long time.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s David Bellamy&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/blog\/bellamy-twenty-eight-years-on-tv-then-blackballed-for-challenging-agw-pjm-exclusive\/\">tale of being canned from a very successful science-popularizer gig on the BBC<\/a> because he dared to speak anti-AGW heresy.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a theme in a lot of recent revelations.  As long as the lid was on the CRU&#8217;s fraud, nobody dared speak up about for fear of being dismissed as a crank.  Now that the AGW crowd&#8217;s power to suppress dissent has been broken, expect to hear a lot more actual scientists &#8212; not politicians, but <em>scientists<\/em> &#8212; coming forward to confirm that the emperor has no clothes. <\/p>\n<p>For the &#8220;low comedy&#8221; part, return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,944914,00.html\">Time Magazine was predicting catastrophic global cooling<\/a>.  And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denisdutton.com\/cooling_world.htm\">Newsweek<\/a>, too.  It&#8217;s hilarious how easy it is to substitute &#8220;warning&#8221; for &#8220;cooling&#8221; and have an article that could have been written last week.<\/p>\n<p>For more low comedy, at least one news story alleges that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/world\/scandal-shakes-foundations-of-climate-science\/article1389842\/\">the IPCC intends to investigate the allegations of CRU misconduct<\/a>.  Yup, I&#8217;m sure; the kleptocrats in our permanent political class don&#8217;t like it when their plans for a power grab go awry, and the U.N.&#8217;s contingent doubtless wants to know who&#8217;s to blame for this debacle. For some reason, the phrase &#8220;the prisoner was shot while attempting to escape&#8221; keeps running through my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unravelling of the AGW fraud continues to provide an entertaining mix of high drama and low comedy. My favorite recent entry on the CRU mob is a screed from a professor of mathematics in Canada: &#8220;All of my colleagues have had to endure these bullies and criminals for a very long time.&#8221; Then there&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=1503\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The scientists have been tied up and gagged in the back room&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}