Hacker Releases Data Implicating CRU in Global Warming Fraud (Updated)
If, as it appears, reputable scientists perpetrated the falsification of data to substantiate their claim of AGW, does this mean that they are aware that the AGW theory is false? Alternatively, do they believe the AGW theory and then consider falsifying data in order to substantiate the claim as a valid scientific undertaking.
It is my belief that a genuine scientific fact should need no falsification of data, to substatiate it. However, people, even scientists are emotional creatures, not totally logical. Is it possible to create a lie and then believe it, even knowing that it was produced from falsity? The large number of intelligent men and women, who are supposedly better trained than average in critical thinking and evaluating data, seem to have somehow displayed a herd mentality, rather than individually duplicating research for the purposes of corroboration of results and properly conducting peer reviews.
