'''Edward Wegman''', a prominent statistics professor at [[George Mason University]],<ref name=wegfact />
'''Edward Wegman''', a prominent statistics professor at [[George Mason University]],<ref name=wegfact />
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is chair of the [[National Science Foundation]]'s Statistical Sciences Committee<ref>[http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/07/a_skeptics_prim.html A Skeptics Primer for “An Inconvenient Truth”]</ref> and former chairman of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Deniers-Renowned-Scientists-Political-Persecution/dp/0980076315/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288282326&sr=1-1 The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud]</ref> He challenges the statistical methods [[Michael Mann]] used to create the famous [[Hockey stick graph]] that the UN's [[IPCC|climate panel]] used to justify the [[Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory]].
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is chair of the [[National Science Foundation]]'s Statistical Sciences Committee<ref>[http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/07/a_skeptics_prim.html A Skeptics Primer for “An Inconvenient Truth”]</ref> and former chairman of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the [[National Academy of Sciences]].<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Deniers-Renowned-Scientists-Political-Persecution/dp/0980076315/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1288282326&sr=1-1 The Deniers: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud]</ref> He challenges the statistical methods [[Michael Mann]] used to create the famous [[Hockey stick graph]] that the UN's [[IPCC|climate panel]] used to justify the [[Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory]].