Socrates Paradox

There is an excellent article by Stephen Hayward that describes in detail the entire Climategate issue here. 

Maybe I’m prejudiced, but the behavior of Gavin Schmidt and the pople that post on realclimate; http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/03/a-mistaken-message-from-iop/are so very similar to the behavior of the scientistists as depicted by the CRU emails that were released.  Their first approach is to shoot the messenger.  In this case, the messenger is the Institute of Physics.  The second approach is to blame it on BIG OIL.  They also viciously attack any poster that is the least critical of them.  Thirdly, they deny that there was any attempt to withhold data, code or methods.