Thursday, May 19, 2011

Things That Seem Related

Feels like there is a short line between these two items.

St. Pete Times: Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions
...George Mason University, a public university in Virginia which has received more than $30 million from Koch over the past 20 years.

Wired: Climatology-Defying Paper Yanked for Plagiarism
The report in question was prepared by Edward Wegman of George Mason University. In it, he criticized the methods used to generate a version of the hockey stick graph generated by Michael Mann, a Penn State climatologist.