And what makes you so sure that climatologists have way higher standards than virologists? Clearly, the institutions themselves are not enforcing even the most

And what makes you so sure that climatologists have way higher standards than virologists? Clearly, the institutions themselves are not enforcing even the most basic standards of integrity on scientists because they've been fighting the release of these emails for two years. The fact that you dislike the Telegraph because it's conservative is irrelevant. The evidence here is absolute proof that scientists, as a group, systematically lied to and manipulated both the public and governments for two years. Their goal was simply to ensure people didn't stop blindly trusting them, which might cause them to lose funding and power. There was no higher purpose yet nobody in the field of virology stepped up and pointed this out publicly. Many of them knew and were saying so in private emails, but - and this is critical - none of them spoke out. Not one. Climatology is in reality not better. The ClimateGate emails have largely been forgotten now but it was also very clear in those that they were manipulating the peer review process, manipulating the temperature records and more in order to get the outcomes they wanted. They admitted it quite openly, at the time even Guardian writers like Monbiot were shocked by it.