Amazing arrogance

Warning: Don't try this with the IRS:

Which leaves researchers free to withhold information selectively from critics, as when CRU director Phil Jones told Australian scientist Warwick Hughes in a 2005 email: "Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it."

(From The Tip of the Climate Iceberg, WSJ 2009/12/08)