[ExI] Don't obsess over "climategate"

[Anders Sandberg]

Max:
> While not at all surprised by what has been revealed in those emails, 
> I think some skeptics of climate catastrophism are obsessing too much 
> over them. 

Sounds a bit like what my colleague Nicholas Shackel is writing:
http://www.practicalethicsnews.com/practicalethics/2009/11/climate-scientists-behaving-badly-part-1.html
His argument is that the important revelation here is the low epistemic standards the researchers hold themselves to, not any revelation about the data or world itself.

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Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University