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To: i-node who wrote (875441)	7/26/2015 5:15:23 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584437

Do you understand why anomalies in scientific data occur? Do you understand that when they do scientists will work to understand the anomalies and make the corrections if warranted..... reputable scientists are very quick to check the veracity of another's data that shows a surprising result. It's anomalous data which generates new experiments. They would never accuse someone of faking data unless it were proved the data is faked which is quite rare and a no win situation. A faker knows that his data is going to be checked by independent measurements and experiments and then his reputation goes to shit. In the present case it has long been recognized that differences existed between satellite temp measurement and surface measurements.......rather than claiming a conspiracy and data faking, people set out to learn what caused the discrepancy and they did find it...... You're trying to treat scientific data like an accounting statement..... If you want to show how smart you are see if you can find out why data sets differ when they shouldn't.....you may be qualified to show it with financial statements but you're not qualified in the physical sciences to get a vote. Bible thumpers accept all kinds of crap as truth because they don't try to show it's stupid and wrong.... Do you get why an analysis that returns a "hockey stick" even when fed noise instead of real observations is a problem? The analysis did not produce the hockey stick, the data extracted from 400,000 year old samples and translated to temperature did.......the challenge became the explanation for the rising temps, not the plotting of the data........ Do you have a theory that explains the rising temps other than that you don't believe the temps are rising.......ie it must be a conspiracy.......