Louisiana - Two Scientists Surrender E-Mail to BP - NYTimes.com Two prominent scientists involved in estimating the flow rate from a ruptured oil well during BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have surrendered more than 3,000 of their private e-mails to the company in response to a subpoena by the United States District Court in New Orleans. BP sought the e-mails from the scientists, Chris Reddy and Richard Camilli of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, to help prepare its defense in a lawsuit brought by the federal government. In an op-ed article in The Boston Globe, the scientists said they had given the company more than 50,000 pages of documents and data before the company also demanded the e-mails. They said they worried that BP would use the e-mails to falsely cast doubt on their conclusions. "Our concern is not simply invasion of privacy, but the erosion of the scientific deliberative process," the scientists wrote. BP said the subpoena was "in no way an attack on science."