{"id":10725,"date":"2012-03-07T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/03\/07\/witch-hunt-against-climate-sci\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:00:37","slug":"witch-hunt-against-climate-sci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/witch-hunt-against-climate-sci\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Witch hunt&quot; against climate scientist blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Climate scientist Michael Mann&#8217;s private e-mails and research notes will remain private, thanks to a ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court. &#8220;Virginia&#8217;s highest court has ruled that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli cannot compel the University of Virginia to turn over records dealing with the work of a former university climate scientist,&#8221; reports the Roanoke Times (March 2, 2012). The Guardian (March 2, 2012) explains, &#8220;The court rejected Ken Cuccinelli&#8217;s demand for Mann&#8217;s email, research notes, and even handwritten memos from his time at the University of Virginia, ruling that the official did not have the legal authority to demand such records.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s from the NCSE.  <a href=\"http:\/\/ncse.com\/news\/2012\/03\/witch-hunt-against-climate-scientist-blocked-007237\">Full report here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate scientist Michael Mann&#8217;s private e-mails and research notes will remain private, thanks to a ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court. &#8220;Virginia&#8217;s highest court has ruled that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli cannot compel the University of Virginia to turn over records dealing with the work of a former university climate scientist,&#8221; reports the Roanoke Times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/07\/witch-hunt-against-climate-sci\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&quot;Witch hunt&quot; against climate scientist blocked<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2MZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}