Actually there is at least one person who read most if not all the e-mails as well as the attached data.There are exceptions, but most research coming out of Russia have caveats attached to them regularly and are seldom taken at face value to quickly.
I don't remember how many e-mails there were, but I doubt a majority have been read b y anyone, certainly not by posters on this BB (I know I got other things to do), and there a good chance they're cherry-picked something fierce. I'm not defending these guys one bit, as they have set things back years, but they weren't the only one ones working this street and there's still credible work piled to the ceiling that put forth a strong body of evidence.
This bit of news was not part of the data affected by the e-mails . The facts of the data adjustment were determined and released by the Russian body responsible in the last couple of weeks.
The data from Russia was sent or collected as a mass dump ie., all the data for all the stations was sent to the collecting agency. The data was apparantly then sorted through and the data that met the requirements was used for the research.