Hockey Stick Basher Wegman Under Investigation

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Is Talk of Lawsuit A Trick to Hide Hisย Decline?

George Mason University has confirmed that it is investigating its Professor Edward Wegman, the statistician who was point man in the 2006 political attack on the so-called โ€œhockey stickโ€ย graph.

Wegman, who was chair of the National Academy of Sciencesโ€™ (NAS) Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, was tapped in โ€˜06 by Republican representatives Joe Barton and Ed Whitfield to assemble a so-called โ€œexpert panelโ€ to critique the famous hockey stick, a graph illustrating a thousand-year temperature record as reconstructed by climate scientists Michael Mann, Raymond Bradley and Malcolm Hughes. But Silicon Valley entrepreneur John Mashey has since demonstrated that, rather than convene a group of experts, Wegman tapped a couple of grad students and together they produced a report that was generously plagiarized from Bradleyโ€™s own work and then twisted – or just misrepresented – to appear to undermine the hockey stick and itsย creators.

Now that the authorities are actually looking into this issue, Wegman himself seems to be suggesting that the charges against him are actionable. He told USA Today that โ€œSome litigation is underย way.โ€

Well, none as it would apply to Mashey, who says he hasnโ€™t heard a peep from Wegman – or from anybodyโ€™s lawyers – in response to his devastatingย critique.

Word is that that this is also just the first of several investigations in the offing. Itโ€™s clear enough from Barton and Whitfieldโ€™s own positions that they were hoping Wegman could wreck a few scientific reputations. As every new work seems to reaffirm the science behind the Mann, Bradley, Hughes hockey stick, it appears the reputation most at risk now is Wegmanโ€™sย own.

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