The ATI has produced an excellent summary of the convoluted story of the struggle to get Michael Mann’s emails.
h/t Bishop Hill
Horner on the struggle for the Mann emails
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15 minutes, but necessary. ATI could be forgiven for believing that UVA recognized something damaging and that, when they finally admitted they would have to man up, the Mann with the most to lose intervened. Not sure that academic freedom is best defended by secrecy. Especially when public use of science is the subject and the scientist is personally profiting from book sales attacking his critics and the original claim to have produced science when documents and data both evidence tampering.
If academic freedom requires secrecy, it is anathema to science which requires the opposite.
UVA: Not Jefferson, but Stonewall.
Yes. If it has to be covered up, there is someting very wrong with it.
UVA was an honor-code school when I taught there. As a professor I obeyed the honor code because I could not face a classroom doing anything else. Mann taught there; you would think he would have obeyed the honor code and not resist letting the e-mails be read
I think his definition of “honor” and what is “honorable” is not the same as yours and mine. That might be how he is able to sleep nights and face classrooms.