text: Further ?vindication? of the Climategate emailers was to follow, of course, in Muir Russell?s equally probing investigation. To be fair, Russell manages to issue a criticism or two. He says the scientists were sometimes ?misleading??but without meaning to be (a plea which, in the case of the ?trick to hide the decline?, is an insult to one?s intelligence). On the apparent conspiracy to subvert peer review, it found that the ?allegations cannot be upheld??but, as the impressively even-handed Fred Pearce of the Guardian notes, this was partly on the grounds that ?the roles of CRU scientists and others could not be distinguished from those of colleagues. There was ?team responsibility?.? Edward Acton, vice-chancellor of the university which houses CRU, calls this ?exoneration?.