Friday, February 12, 2010

University of East Anglia appoint Muir Russell to investigate Climategate, why didn't they appoint a corrupt man? Seems a reasonable question!











Dear All

Climategate is one of the worst scandals to hit the scientific community; governments based their decisions on data produced by scientists.

Now, the University of East Anglia has appointed a man who was involved in covering up institutional bullying, harassment, discrimination, malpractice and criminal fraud at a publicly funded charity.

His name is Sir Muir Russell.

And he is guilty of all of the above; the evidence can be found here.

What is truly sickening that Russell is heading a review that will focus on whether researchers at the CRU followed "scientific rigour, honesty and due processes".

Honesty and due process aren’t his strong points.

Another aspct of the review by Russell is whether the people he is investigating complied with university rules on Freedom of Information requests.

He couldn’t get his own staff to do that at Glasgow University after being repeated told.

Does the decision by the university to hold a simultaneous inquiry mean that they have woken up to the fact that Muir Russell has a past?

Given the abject failure of leadership, integrity and honesty at Glasgow University, the University of East Anglia should appoint a man of integrity rather than damaged goods.

If my job and professional reputation was on the line then I certainly wouldn’t want someone like Muir Russell investigating me, I would want a man of integrity.

Maybe the University of East Anglia are so short of cash they couldn’t afford someone of outstanding ability and genuine integrity.

They should have run an appeal.

Muir Russell;

"Our job is to investigate scientific rigour, honesty, openness and due process."

Three out of four, I have personal knowledge that he doesn’t have any truck with from my dealings with him.

Muir Russell is corrupt.

Yours sincerely

George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The corrupt men tell me to tell you they are all very happy with things just as they are and if you are experiencing a shortage of corrupt men they feel certain that come May the 6th or whatever there'll be more than enough corrupt men to satisfy your immediate and future requirements for YEARS to come.