The Empiricist

Two months ago, before climategate, nobody ever talked about a climate “conspiracy theory”. People who didn’t believe in man-made climate change were not accused of being conspiracy theorists, they were simply ‘deniers’, denialists, contrarians and naysayers.
Now, thanks to climategate, we learn that there was a conspiracy to thwart Freedom of Information requests, manipulate data, and subvert the peer review process.
All of a sudden, after we learn that there’s a verifiable conspiracy that most of us (certainly I) did not even suspect, climate skeptics are being labeled conspiracy theorists.
What rank dishonesty.
If you get busted for corruption, the best course of action, it seems, is to declare your accusers of being conspiracy theorists.