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["Chris Clarke" <hstead AT nc.rr.com>]

Unless funding explicitly includes storage, it won't be kept.   People move 
on....  unless there is a legal reason (medical research, for example comes 
to mind) records are kept only by those that have money or means to do so.

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <dsanner106 AT aol.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Climate-Gate


> The problem is they cannot be duplicated, they are gone and were not
> duplicated. We have only the work product they generated after massaging 
> the
> original data. My wife is a university grant writer, I think they would be 
> so
> happy to hear that they can throw away all the data gathered from those
> funded  studies that they have always been required to keep. There is a
> warehouse full  of the stuff, still kept even though it has been 
> transferred to
> microfilm and  later digital formats.
> Drew
> ,
>
> In a message dated 12/15/2009 12:27:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> lurine AT com-pair.net writes:
>
> I don't  think the average person, which the DC Whorehouse, etc. counts 
> on,
>
> understands what happens to all that paper.
>
> They collect data, they  correlate data, they digest data, they spit out
> data
> in the form of papers  for peer review and scientific journals.  The data
> sits around and  then the data is trashed.  That specific project is over.
> They have  the results.  It is done.
>
> No big conspiracy.  Just basic,  ordinary everyday housekeeping.  The idea
> that someone might have  thought 30 years ago that not keeping a 
> collection
> of references, that can  be duplicated if needed, would cause such a stink
> is
> ludicrous.
>
> Lynda