re: NOAA Whistleblower: How world leaders were duped over manipulated AGW data

I'd be interested in hearing why, in the NOAA study at least, "scientific" error corrections come without any error bars/envelope/analysis. Is it because if you ignore discussion of expected error margins you can tweak it to say whatever the hell you want it to say? Meanwhile, no one with an ounce of academic integrity can trust the data because there's no way of knowing if your "corrected" values are significant or not.