"2009 Climategate scandal where leaked emails showed that climate data was being falsely manipulated by researchers at Penn State University and East Anglia University"
Not that simple and you should know better
https://stories.uea.ac.uk/the-story-behind-the-trick/

Please post a link or reference to a lead toxicity study in waterfowl or eagles that was retracted for falsifying/faking data. 500-600 papers are retracted every year - there's gotta be some from wildlife biologists
https://www.science.org/content/art...about-science-publishing-s-death-penalty
They call it the "death penalty" because research misconduct is a big deal in academics
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK214564/

Please post a quotation where I advocated a lead shot/ammo ban

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0300985818813099
86 or the 93 had histologic evidence of lead toxicity.
Maybe they pooped out the ingested lead?? Or eventually puked the lead out with the casing??

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https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jwmg.21822
1,490 dead eagles. 176 from lead poisoning

https://www.researchgate.net/public...ational_Wildlife_Health_Center_1975-2013
2,980 bald eagles and 1,427 golden eagles
879 were poisoned, and of those poisoned, 552 were poisoned by lead

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Buried in this. You are correct. Golden Eagles die from lots of things
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9286660/
We recovered 175 dead golden eagles that were tagged with transmitters and determined the cause of death for 126 (72%). The observed causes of death were starvation and emaciation (N = 37), shooting (N = 16), collisions (N = 16; five with vehicles, two with wind turbines, two with power lines, one with a train, and six undetermined), accidents (N = 15; four predation, two impacts with natural features, one drowning, one burned in a wildfire, and seven trauma but in natural settings), electrocution (N = 13), poisoning (N = 10; four lead, three multiple substances including lead, two Aldicarb, and one anticoagulant rodenticide [Cholorophacinone and Diphacinone]), disease (N = 8; four West Nile virus, two septicemia, one complications from knemidocoptiasis, and one with multiple issues), intraspecific fighting (N = 7, 6 of which were AY3 individuals), and trapping (N = 4; one Conibear, one snare, and two unspecified traps).
For > 1 yr golden eagles, the model indicated most deaths were from shooting (20%), collision (18%), electrocution (14%), and poisoning (13%).

Your personal observations regarding eagle recovery in PA (a good thing) are irrelevant to whether eagles are dying from lead ingestion. Is it really your position that lead has no toxicity in wildlife? Based on one anecdotal report of high lead levels in a surviving eagle?

But we're just repeating ourselves. Dave can do what he wants. His forum.

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