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The FOI Myth #2

Dec 29, 2009 – 8:36 PM

As noted in yesterday’s post, Nature recently editorialized: If there are benefits to the e-mail theft, one is to highlight yet again the harassment that denialists inflict on some climate-change researchers, often in the form of endless, time-consuming demands for information under the US and UK Freedom of Information Acts. Governments and institutions need to […]

By Steve McIntyre | Posted in climategate, FOIA | Comments (242)

FOI Myth #1: USA

Dec 28, 2009 – 10:30 PM

Climate scientists have recently been promoting the myth that providing data in response to FOI requests was interfering with their work. Nature uncritically accepted this myth in a recent editorial calling for action to protect climate-change researchers from “endless time-consuming demands for information under the US and UK Freedom of Information Acts.”: If there are […]

By Steve McIntyre | Posted in climategate, FOIA, Santer | Comments (270)