Committee On Energy and Commerce Report (Wegman Report)
In an editorial dated 14 July 2006, the Wall Street Journal announced that a report commissioned by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce was due to be released that day. It gave a preview of the conclusions of the report, which had been prepared by three statisticians: Edward Wegman, David W. Scott and Yasmin H. Said.The committee chairman U.S. Rep. Joe Barton issued a press release giving a summary of the report's findings, with quotations from the report. The report primarily focused on the statistical analysis used in the MBH paper, but also considered the personal and professional relationships between Mann et al. and other members of the paleoclimate community. It became known as the "Wegman Report", and its findings were discussed at hearings of the Energy Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations under its chairman U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield.
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