Bike People! Try to comprehend what instills your fear; it is a group of people who boast that they cherry pick and instruct how to cherry pick.
Try to rationalize what the procedure is. The famous Hockey Stick graphs depend on tree ring data. They have no thermometer records from 1000yrs ago. They cherry pick particular species of trees, particular locations of trees, particular trees, particular parts of trees, give extraordinary weighting to any particular tree, and yet still have to hide the decline of the proxy when we can see it does not correlate with thermometers in modern times. They go up as you know, and the tree rings are showing temperature going down. So the scientists hide that portion that we can see does not show agreement, they even delete that portion and when caught, call it bad data, so it had to be removed.
What Jan Esper musta meant was that they have the ability to pick and choose not only which samples to use, but to show us only portions which agree with their belief. Indeed........
..... an advantage unique