wonder what affect this will have on global warming peer review and analysis of fraud in research

Seems like UVA should want to have this checked out to see just what quality of research was being done on their dime.

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| Judge Quashes Subpoena of UVA Research Records |
| from the closing-the-climategate dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday August 30, @18:35 (Earth) |
|https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/08/30/2143210/Judge-Quashes-Subpoena-of-UVA-Research-|
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esocid writes "An Albemarle County Circuit Court judge has [0]set aside a
subpoena issued by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to the
University of Virginia [1]seeking documents related to the work of
climate scientist and former university professor Michael Mann. Judge
Paul M. Peatross Jr. ruled that Cuccinelli can investigate whether fraud
has occurred in university grants, as the attorney general had contended,
but ruled that Cuccinelli's subpoena failed to state a 'reason to
believe' that Mann had committed fraud. He also set aside the subpoena
without prejudice, meaning Cuccinelli can rewrite it to better explain
why he wants to investigate, but seemed skeptical about the underlying
claim of fraud. The ruling is a major blow for Cuccinelli, a global
warming skeptic who had maintained he was investigating whether Mann
committed fraud in seeking government money for research that showed the
earth has experienced a rapid, recent warming. Mann, now at Penn State
University, worked at U-Va. until 2005. 'The Court has read with care
those pages and understands the controversy regarding Dr. Mann's work on
the issue of global warming. However, it is not clear what he did was
misleading, false or fraudulent in obtaining funds from the Commonwealth
of Virginia,' Peatross wrote. The ruling also limited Cuccinelli to
asking about only one of the five grants issued, which was the only one
using state funds."

Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/08/30/2143210

Links:
0.http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2010/08/judge_quashes_cuccinelli_subpo.html
1.http://politics.slashdot.org/story/10/05/02/2027242/Virginia-AG-Probing-Michael-Mann-For-Fraud

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