/sci/ - Science & Math

Seen from a history of science perspective this is one of the best documented cases of scientific fraud and corruption.

The 'liberation' of the mail server wasn't a traditional hack. The leaked archive was put together in response to a FOIA request and stored on the web server but not linked to on any page. Then some 'insider' published the URL and the archive was quickly mirrored to many places before it disappeared.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/07/comprhensive-network-analysis-shows-climategate-likely-to-be-a
-leak/

The archive itself can still be found via http://devilfinder.com/find.php?q=FOIA2009.zip

You can study the content at http://www.eastangliaemails.com (a searchable data base).

Pic very related: How they forged the data. And when it came up they 'accidentally' deleted the raw data to cover their tracks.