Hiding the decline: $500,000 . . .
By D.J. McGuire | Friday, January 14th, 2011 | Policy
. . . and counting?
Blogger Tom Nelson noted this little tidbit from the Commonwealth Foundation: UVA has spent roughly half a million dollars to fight Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s attempt to get to the bottom of “Nature Trick” Michael Mann’s role in Climategate, and whether the taxpayers of Virginia were swindled.
Complying with Cuccinelli’s request (now mirrored by a FOIA request), by contrast, would have only cost $8,000.
Now, UVA has been squawking that this is all about fighting for “academic freedom.” Put aside the fact that “academic freedom” was coined as a phrase to protect students from ideological professors, and Mann’s former colleague Fred Singer supports Cuccinelli’s probe. Fact is, Mann and his colleagues have stretched “academic freedom” to include ignoring freedom of information requests, twisting the peer-review process to silence dissenting scientists, and truncating inconvenient data (the last of which was the actual “Mike’s Nature Trick”).
?There have been so many instances of errors, data manipulation, and other shenanigans, from global warming alarmists that the rest of us can barely keep up with them; the number of my posts alone on this subject stands at thirty-three.
None of that seems to matter to Mr. Jefferson’s university – all the more reason I would have been a capital-F Federalist.
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8 Responses to "Hiding the decline: $500,000 . . ."
UVA has a CAVALIER attitude.
That’s a half-million dollars UVA had laying around while charging $23,000 for one year of education to Virginians.
Forget the oil companies. Looks like the big businesses rolling in money are colleges.
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Any attempt to place this expenditure on the back of the Board of Trustees of UVA fails because of the facts; that is, the AG made an irrational and an unreasonable demand that must be refuted.
In the leftist world the statement ” … fails because of the facts; that is, the AG made an irrational and an unreasonable demand” is considered a “fact” whereas the cobverups and falsification of data is called inconsequential because everyone knows that Al Gore couldn’t be wrong. The statement that “Al Gore couldn’t be wrong” is also a leftist “fact”. Mike needs to look up the case of Lysenko in the Soviet Union but won’t.
Mike – What pray tell, was the AG’s irrational and unreasonable demand?
I think Ken Cuccinelli is awesome! Some of our friends on the Left will just have to learn how to grin and Barrett.
We need to start funding Cuccinelli’s next campaign now. You KNOW the opposition will have good funding to try defeat any future election he runs for.
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