Exoneration did not end attacks dismissed as whitewash

Evidence

Sherwood Boehlert, the former Republican chairman of the House Science Committee, regarded the attacks on climate scientists as diverting attention from a serious undertaking: “The attacks on scientists were a manufactured distraction” (Eilperin, 2010). He welcomed the end of the furor: “This exoneration should close the book on the absurd episode in which climate scientists were unjustly attacked.” However, Myron Ebell, a spokesman in media appearances for skeptics of global warming and climate science, dismissed the investigations as a “whitewash” (Eilperin, 2010). There is no longer serious scientific dispute over the credibility of the evidence. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2740

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the vault theme that evidence of innocence or factual accuracy does not dissolve motivated rejection of unwelcome information — rejection survives refutation by retargeting the accusers.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2740