If not the smoking gun, it's definitely a clue

'The second question, the integrity of the data, is different. People say “Yes, they destroyed emails, and hid from Freedom of information Acts, and messed with proxies, and fought to keep other scientists’ papers out of the journals … but that doesn’t affect the data, the data is still good.” Which sounds reasonable.'

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/the-smoking-gun-at-darwin-zero/

See the actual data before your eyes! Touch it! Taste it! See what the bastards did to defile it!