Methods of Thinking and Methods of work
"1. Your curriculum vitae, including, but not limited to, a list of all studies relating to climate change research for which you were an author or co-author and the source of funding for those studies."
--Letter to Dr. Michael Mann (PDF)
"It being the case that thou, Galileo, son of the late Vincenzio Galilei, a Florentine, now aged 70, wast denounced in this Holy Office in 1615."
--Indictment and Abjuration of Galileo, 1633
"2. List all financial support you have received related to your research, including, but not limited to, all private, state, and federal assistance, grants, contracts (including subgrants or subcontracts), or other financial awards or honoraria."
--Letter to Dr. Michael Mann
"That thou heldest as true the false doctrine taught by many, that the Sun was the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the Earth moved, and had also a diurnal motion: That on this same matter thou didst hold a correspondence with certain German mathematicians."
--Indictment and Abjuration of Galileo, 1633
"3. Regarding all such work involving federal grants or funding support under which you were a recipient of funding or principal investigator, provide all agreements relating to those underlying grants or funding, including, but not limited to, any provisions, adjustments, or exceptions made in the agreements relating to the dissemination and sharing of research results."
--Letter to Dr. Michael Mann
"That the Sun is the centre of the universe and doth not move from his place is a proposition absurd and false in philosophy, and formerly heretical; being expressly contrary to Holy Writ: That the Earth is not the centre of the universe nor immoveable, but that it moves, even with a diurnal motion, is likewise a proposition absurd and false in philosophy, and considered in theology ad minus erroneous in faith."
--Indictment and Abjuration of Galileo, 1633
"4. Provide the location of all data archives relating to each published study for which you were an author or co-author..."
--Letter to Dr. Michael Mann
"From which it is Our pleasure that you be absolved, provided that with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, in Our presence, you abjure, curse, and detest, the said error and heresies, and every other error and heresy contrary to the Catholic and Apostolic Church of Rome."
--Indictment and Abjuration of Galileo, 1633
"5. According to The Wall Street Journal"...
--Letter to Dr. Michael Mann
"Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with thier wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle."
--Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
I just couldn't resist, Atrios made me do it! Via Chris Mooney.
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