Turning up the heat
I am writing to respond to Travis Ortiz's Oct. 19 column ("Scientific freedom"). Although I commend Ortiz for his opposition to the civil investigative demand by Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli against former University Prof. Michael Mann, I felt that I needed to clarify a few items regarding Mann and his work. In particular, the statement regarding the "individual realities" of withholding data, suppressing alternative findings and manipulating results - attributed to Mann - is just not true and we should all be extremely careful when making such potentially slanderous comments.