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A panel of independent experts has officially begun its inquiry into the “Climategate” affair.
The experts, headed by Sir Muir Russell, will investigate how e-mails from the UK’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) appeared on the web.
They will also consider if the e-mail exchanges between researchers show an attempt to manipulate or suppress data “at odds” with scientific practice.
But even before the panel could start work, one of its members resigned. Dr Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief for Nature journal, stood down late on Thursday because of remarks he had made last year in the Chinese media in which he said the scientists mentioned in the e-mails had “behaved as researchers should”.
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Source: news.bbc.co.uk