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Because government officials are all paid heavily by the oil and gas industry

While the taxpayer-funded scientists would never attempt to inflate their own importance to direct more grant-monies in their direction... Especially now that the hysteria of "global warming" is settling down — and a new boogeyman, which, conveniently, can be neither measured nor confirmed nor denied with any certainty, is needed.

One makes the laws that allow them to be bribed during campaign years without anyone knowing where or who that money came from and accept positions at the very companies they benefit after they "retire." And the other, well the other publishes peer reviewed research that is open for everyone. They then host a forum for the community to comment on it. And I should mention that the SSA is a an international community and a non-profit organization. But, go ahead and attack the scientists or whatever Murdoch/Rove/Beck drivel you've been trained to parrot.

The bottom line is that you exemplify one of the biggest problems America faces today by giving a free pass to the obviously corrupt while attacking those who simply want to disseminate information that can be reanalyzed and refuted if it is wrong.

Funny how convenient the timing is. This from a society where ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company ( http://www.seismosoc.org/insid... ) is a corporate member. Not that I endorse fracking, but my internal conspiracy theorist is making loud noises in my head.

There is some intriguing evidence of the existence of strange quark matter, a dark matter candidate, which we've recently published in the Bulletine of the Seismological Society of America. as previously discussed on /.

Er, yes, preview is a valuable and underutilized option