fnordfn. Something to whet the appetite on the long legal road Mark Steyn is treading
were false, resulting from their misunderstanding of the format of a spreadsheet version of the dataset they had specifically requested from my associate, Scott Rutherford. None of the problems they cited were present in the raw, publicly available version of our dataset, which was available at that time at ftp://holocene.evsc.virginia.edu/pub/MBH98/.
This claim is similar to what he told the Penn State Inquiry Mann now claims shows he was innocent of the charges leveled against him:
The issue of an “incorrect version” of the data came about because Dr. McIntyre had requested the data (which were already available on the FTP site) in spreadsheet format, and Dr. Rutherford, early on, had unintentionally sent an incorrectly formatted spreadsheet.
You’ll note in Mann’s book, he claimed his critics misunderstood the format of a file, yet Mann told the Penn State Inquiry the file in question was “incorrectly formatted.” It’s difficult to imagine why…
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Steve McIntyre is on the case (maybe officially soon)
Some very good news on this front… http://www.principia-scientific.org/michael-mann-faces-bankruptcy-as-his-courtroom-climate-capers-collapse.html
Mann is toast. Congrats to Dr Tim Ball.
I’ll await the story from Tim Ball. O’Sullivan spins quicker than my hoovermatic
Although Styne has jump started his counter suit based on the Ball suit status, so the gun doesn’t appear to have been jumped by O’Sullivan. Styne wouldn’t have done so if there was any risk.
Probably, but I’ll await contact from Tim all the same.
Tim Ball has returned my mail. We will await developments.
It looks like John O Sullivan’s self aggrandising and premature post has poked a stick into the hornet’s nest. I sincerely hope this does not adversely affect Tim’s case. Fools rush in…
Yes, John does seem to have jumped the gun a bit, I stand corrected. Thanks.
Hopefully Judith Curry’s comments on Mann’s behaviour will start the ball rolling on both the public access to publicly funded science and tbe isolation of Mann.