Confirmation bias my ass! Josh got it right – Climategate has revealed an intentionally deceptive, psuedo-scientific research process underlying the biggest economic and political scam in history, all of which violate morals, ethics and the scientific method.

It’s also hard to take Megan McCardle seriously when she starts a post with this:

I am thoroughly unimpressed with the belief that global warming scientists have been engaging in some kind of massive conspiracy to conceal the truth. First, because we seem to be able to observe things like polar ice sheets melting, which point to warming.

Like seeing polar ice sheets melting is in and of itself proof of anything…and it goes downhill from there. Having read several of her posts on the subject, and her responses to comments, she strikes me as either a head in the sand warmist, or, one who is too afraid of her NYC/DC peer group reaction to admit that she no longer believes.