Financial Post: A panel criticizes the Climategate scientists for being defensive and unhelpful, for withholding data, for providing misleading information, for having been "blinded … to the possibility of merit" in the claims of their critics ‘Panel in Britain clears scientists of misconduct allegations in ‘Climate-gate’," read the Washington Post headline, one of many describing a vindication of the Climategate scientists at East Anglia University`s Climatic Research Unit in the U.K. Other press …