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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (6618)	11/22/2010 11:41:25 AM
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Wegman under investigation by George Mason University Posted on October 8, 2010 by Deep Climate\| 275 Comments [Update, Oct. 11: George Mason University spokesperson Doug Walsch has clarified that the complaint against Wegman has moved past the preliminary "inquiry" phase and is now under formal investigation. ] [Update, Oct. 15, 19: I have added pointers to my previous discussions and updated side-by-side comparisons relevant to allegations of plagiarism forwarded to George Mason University last March and April. The allegations concern not only the Wegman report, but also the federally-funded Said et al 2008 (published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, with Wegman and two other Wegman proteges as co-authors). ] George Mason University has acknowledged that statistics professor Edward Wegman is under investigation for plagiarism. As related in USA Today, the investigation followed a formal complaint by paleoclimatologist Raymond Bradley, co-author of the seminal (and controversial) 1998 and 1999 “hockey stick” temperature reconstructions. But a letter from Roger Stough, GMU’s vice-president responsible for research, indicates that the pace of the initial inquiry has been slow. And it appears that a promised date for resolution of the inquiry phase of the proceeding has been missed. Continue reading deepclimate.org