Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s investigation of former University of Virginia climatologist Michael Mann under the Virginia Fraud Against Taxpayers Act for his role in Climategate has sent more than 800 academics across the nation into a royal tizzy.
At the same time they’re accusing Cuccinelli of a “McCathyite inquisition” (nice two-fer, that), they’re insisting that his inquiry is nothing but a “cheap publicity stunt” that is part of the “right-wing political war on climate science.” U.Va.’s Faculty Senate Executive Council accused the AG of “sending a chilling message to scientists engaged in basic research involving Earth’s climate.”
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