Does "climategate" make you go all dumb?

Deniers were always dumb conspiracy theorists. ClimateGate simply gave them an excuse to stop trying to hide it. In the past they usually made weak attempts at scientific arguments to create the pretense that they denied AGW for scientific reasons. But as we all know, deniers deny AGW for political reasons. ClimateGate has simply given them an excuse to drop the scientific pretense and reveal their true political and conspiratory natures.