Did Penn State Cover Up Michael Mann’s ‘Hockey Stick’ Fraud?

After climate researcher Dr Michael Mann’s stunning defeat in his libel court battle versus skeptic, Dr Tim Ball, we look back on how culpable his employers, Penn State University, could be in the ‘cover up crime’ to hide his fraudulent data.

On June 15, 2015, Fox News was one of several large news agencies who smelled conspiracy at the university that was found guilty of cover up crimes involving their other ‘star player’, football coach, Jerry Sandusky.

Fox reported:

“How thoroughly did Penn State University investigate a top climate scientist who brought hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to the school? A growing number of critics say they hardly looked at all.

Penn State ended a two-month probe into the work of Michael Mann, a top climate scientist whose “hockey stick” graph of climbing world temperature helped galvanize support for the climate change movement, on Wednesday.

The probe stemmed from the release of thousands of hacked e-mails from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England that showed the internal debate and, some say, the manipulation of data, to support the scientific underpinnings of the case for global, man-made warming of the planet. Mann’s e-mails were among those released and critics charged that he used “tricks” to make his data match studies that confirmed warming trends.

A three-person board of inquiry cleared Mann of three of four charges brought by the university that he falsified or tried to destroy data, and recommended further study on the fourth charge that his methods “deviated from accepted practices” of the scientific community.

They wrote in their report that “that there exists no credible evidence that Dr. Mann had ever engaged in, or participated in, directly or indirectly, any actions with intent to delete, conceal or otherwise destroy e-mails, information and/or data.”

Click here to read the full report.

But the findings and, more importantly, the focus have set off a wave of criticism accusing the university panel of failing to interview key people, neglecting to conduct more than a cursory review of allegations and structuring the inquiry so that the outcome — exoneration — was a foregone conclusion.

On Friday, Rep. Darrell Issa, the ranking Republican on the House Investigations Committee, charged that the Penn State’s failure to settle all the charges and called into question professor Mann’s work. He is demanding that all grants to the noted scientist be frozen.

Mann, according to published reports, has gotten a grant almost $550,000 in stimulus money to study climate change and is part of a nearly $2 million grant to Penn State to study the impact of climate change on various diseases.

“Until the investigation is completed,” Issa said, “the National Science Foundation should immediately freeze all grants and funding, including the $541,184 stimulus grant, to Professor Mann.””

On August 22, 2019 the Supreme Court of British Columbia dismissed Mann’s multi-million dollar libel SLAPP suit against Dr Ball and the skeptic Canadian climatologist is meeting with interested parties to plan the next moves to see justice is served on the wholly discredited Penn State junk scientist.

Watch this space, folks!


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    Herb Rose

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    Hi John,
    In the United States we have the most horrible civil legal system possible. If you fire someone you’ll be sued. If you don’t fire someone you will be sued. Whenever something bad happens people believe it is someone else’s fault, even it is spilling coffee on themselves. As long as the plaintiff cannot lose and defendant cannot win there will be no justice. Lawyers will take any case no matter how ridiculous hoping for a settlement or a really stupid jury (not uncommon). With the deep pocket policy anyone with anything is vulnerable to the idiocy no matter how distant their connection. No wonder all institutions are reluctant to do anything but do studies resulting in the need for more studies.
    Until we adopt a system like the English or Canadian system where loser pays it will never get better and medical costs will never drop. Since politicians are primarily from the parasitic legal class there is little hope of reforming the system to be about justice rather than money.
    Herb

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