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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Seriously?
"Readers of both earlier reports need to know that both institutions receive tens of millions in federal global warming research funding (which can be confirmed by perusing the grant histories of Messrs. Jones or Mann, compiled from public sources, that are available online at freerepublic.com). Any admission of substantial scientific misbehavior would likely result in a significant loss of funding."
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Pretty weak.
Pastiche uses the fossil fuel link to attack on a guys argument. That is ad hominem. An attack on a persons character to attack their argument.
Pat Michaels uses the funding link as circumstantial evidence as to why they are covering their butts. If you follow
Zulu's link you get this nice quote.
Moving on, the report then says, in effect, that Mann is a distinguished scholar, a successful raiser of research funding, a man admired by his peers -- so any allegation of academic impropriety must be false.
That article has a direct quote from the investigation. So it seems funding does play a strong role. Hardly Ad hominem.