claim: An independent inquiry found CRU is a small research unit with limited resources and their rigour and honesty are not in doubt.
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit email controversy:160
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit email controversy
evidences.evidence: The Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry reported on 31 March 2010 that it had found that "the scientific reputation of Professor Jones and CRU remains intact".
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit email controversy:192
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit email controversy
evidences.evidence: Describing its report as "hugely positive", he stated that "it is especially important that, despite a deluge of allegations and smears against the CRU, this independent group of utterly reputable scientists have concluded that there was no evidence of any scientific malpractice."
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit email controversy:224
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit email controversy
evidences.evidence: The "rigour and honesty" of the scientists at the Climatic Research Unit were found not to be in doubt.
evidences.votes: SUPPORTS REFUTES SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Climatic Research Unit email controversy:86
evidences.article: Climatic Research Unit email controversy
evidences.evidence: The panel did not seek to evaluate the science itself, but rather whether "the conclusions [reached by the CRU] represented an honest and scientifically justified interpretation of the data".
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO SUPPORTS SUPPORTS
evidences.evidence_id: Rigour:18
evidences.article: Rigour
evidences.evidence: Intellectual rigour is a subset of intellectual honesty—a practice of thought in which ones convictions are kept in proportion to valid evidence.
evidences.votes: NOT_ENOUGH_INFO REFUTES NOT_ENOUGH_INFO