Blogger Compares Penn State’s Handling of Child Rapist to Climate Scientist
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In a July 13 blog post, a writer for the The Chronicle of Higher Education ‘s Innovations blog wrote a post that was ostensibly about the child sex abuse scandal at Pennsylvania State University and the school’s complicity in covering it up. But the blogger, Peter Wood, didn’t stop there. He went on in the piece to compare it to how the school has handled the work of one of its climate scientists. He refers in the piece to the work of Michael Mann, the director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State, who has been on the receiving end of a variety of attacks over the years, including the smear campaign resulting from emails that were stolen and put online in the fake scandal known as “Climategate .” Wood uses the fact that a university investigation into “Climategate” (not to mention at least six other investigations on the subject conducted by outside institutions) exonerated Mann from allegations that he’d falsified data or hidden information as proof that there is “a culture of evasion” at the school
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