In an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal on April 22, 2010, Richard Lindzen, a leading climate change denier, wrote the following:
In mid-November of 2009 there appeared a file on the Internet containing thousands of emails and other documents from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain. How this file got into the public domain is still uncertain, but the emails, whose authenticity is no longer in question, provided a view into the world of climate research that was revealing and even startling.
In what has come to be known as "climategate," one could see unambiguous evidence of the unethical suppression of information and opposing viewpoints, and even data manipulation.
Emphasis added.
This statement has been shown to be false by two independent panels.
The most recent review results were noted in an e-mail newsletter from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) also on April 22, 2010:
An independent international panel commissioned to examine key publications of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit released a report finding "no evidence of any deliberate scientific malpractice in any of the work of the Climatic Research Unit." The commission noted that better statistical methods and bookkeeping skills could have been used but would not have changed the overall results.