Steve McIntyre: ‘Climategate Documents Confirm Wegman’s Hypothesis’ — ‘The Wegman Report was vindicated on its hypothesis about peer-review within the Mann ‘clique’
'The Wegman Report hypothesized, but were unable to prove, that reviewers in the Mann 'clique' had been 'reviewing other members of the same clique'. Climategate provided the missing evidence, Climategate documents showed that clique member Phil Jones had reviewed papers by other members of the clique, including some of the articles most in controversy – confirming what the Wegman Report had only hypothesized'
