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. Professor Mann was one of the victims of that attack on science. (See also: The Serengeti Strategy<\/a>.)<\/p>\nMore recently, David Schnare<\/a>, a science denier who gets paid to do this sort of thing, running a fossil fuel funded anti-science group<\/a>, attempted to get even more emails out of Michael Mann, but lost in that effort in the Virginia Supreme Court. After losing that battle, Schnare went after other emails, in Arizona. According to scientist and anti-science victim Michael Mann, he<\/p>\n …targeted two other prominent climate scientists at the University of Arizona, Jonathan Overpeck and Malcolm Hughes (the latter being one of my longtime co-authors), seeking a total of 13 years of emails from them, including correspondence with or about me or my research. <\/p>\n …<\/p>\n I have spent much effort in the years since \u201cClimategate\u201d explaining why scientists\u2019 research correspondence needs to be protected from legal bullying. Anyone who truly cares about the research can and should review the published papers and underlying data, directly evaluating a study\u2019s methodologies, analyses, and conclusions. But seeking thousands of emails serves only to stifle collaboration and discourage the frank, creative exchange of ideas, and chill the candor needed during the confidential peer review process.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n E&E Legal will no doubt post the Arizona emails once they receive them, distributing them online with a series of misleading and disingenuous mischaracterizations, choosing a few phrases here and there to misrepresent me and other scientists and to falsely accuse us of all manner of misdeeds. <\/p>\n Consequently, I am sharing my emails here (enter \u201cmail_guest\u201d for both username and password)<\/a>. Moreover, a group of independent climate science experts have gone through the emails providing context for interpreting the exchanges and discussions contained within.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, at least some of the emails currently under attack are now available. Some of these emails, released by Michael Mann preemptively, have notes added to them to provide context. Some time later today (Friday) Schnare<\/a> is expected to do his own release of all of the Arizona emails.<\/p>\n Do read his biographical notes at DeSmogBlog<\/a>. And stay tuned.<\/p>\n See also: “But their emails!<\/a>” by David Kirtley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You’ve heard about the “scientific method.” If your memory is excellent, and you took a lot of science classes in American schools, you learned two of them, because life science textbooks and physical science textbooks teach somewhat different concepts called “scientific method.” If you study the history of science, even at a superficial level, or … Continue reading Thwarting another attack on climate science, Michael Mann releases his own emails<\/span>