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To: Little Joe who wrote (14753)	12/7/2009 1:57:37 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Arguments from authority are particularly weak when the person making the argument is offering themselves as an authority - as in manmade global warming is true because I say so and I have special expertise based on allegedly being a "statistics expert", having attended medical conferences, having taken physics classes years ago, being friends with this or that professor. These exercises in egoism are laughable. What I'd call bluffs. The only real statistics experts that have weighed in on manmade global warming I know of Steve McIntyre, a mathematician, and Edward Wegman's team who busted the Mann-Bradley-Hughes hockey stick. Re. Edward Wegman: He holds a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Senior Member of the IEEE. en.wikipedia.org