In a post that rather ties together several of the recent threads at this site, Anthony Watts looks at the recent interest in Myles Allen's talk, the importance of the Hockey Stick and discusses a recent paper that looks at the tendency to see expertise where there is none.
[The Hockey Stick] was a good gamble at the time, but as Climategate has shown us, it may have been a winning hand with a one time jackpot, but they are losing the card game as the other players slowly realize they have a cheat in their midst.