Climategate: Imminent Demise of Glaciers Due to … a Typo!
If I’d written a report with a mistake like that in high school, I’d have gotten a D at best. In college, I’d have gotten a zero. And in the crime lab…. I don’t want to think about what my boss would have said, to say nothing of IA and Professional Review.
These are the elite’, the experts, the final arbiters of the fate of Western civilization (they hope)- and they are apparently incapable of proofreading their own reports.
Thomas Jefferson was right. It’s not necessary to assume malice when simple stupidity is all that’s required to screw things up.
Of course, this leads to the question “Why didn’t anybody else catch the mistake?” Was it because they were as incompetent as the authors?
Or because they so desperately wanted to believe it wasn’t a mistake- or wanted everyone else to believe it was the unvarnished (and oh-so-Convenient) “Truth”?
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