I’ve been following the so-called “Climategate” with some interest, especially come from a science studies/actor-network-theory perspective. Recently, a bunch of hackers released emails from scientists at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, just in time for the climates talks at Copenhagen. Parts of these emails reveal some of the discussions that go on between scientists, some of which, to an outsider, comes across as suspiciously partisan. For example, some calling on their colleagues not to cite scientists and journals with dissenting views on the anthropogenic (i.e. human-caused) issue of global warming, or suggesting ways of making the data seem more aligned with their theory as they really are.