Don’t let ‘Climategate’ melt down your portfolio

I've said before that you are more vulnerable to skillful rhetoric than you think. Well, the past week proved it.

You've probably read about “Climategate” – how thousands of hacked e-mails from climate scientists revealed that they colluded to fudge their conclusions about global warming, told each other to destroy incriminating e-mails and perhaps even dumped raw data to mask the fraud. Why did it work? Because the falsified conclusions appealed to people's good nature, and because the conspirators co-opted above-average rhetoricians to deliver their message. More...

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