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Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study

Posted by Zonk on from the you're-wrong-and-i-think-mr.-lincoln-knows-why dept.

w1z4rd writes "According to an article in the Guardian, scientists and economists have been offered large bribes by a lobbying group funded by ExxonMobil. The offers were extended by the American Enterprise Institute group, which apparently has numerous ties to the Bush administration. Couched in terms of an offer to write 'dissenting papers' against the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, several scientists contacted for the article refused the offers on conflict of interest grounds."

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  1. If you can't beat 'em.. by BlackCobra43 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    attempt to bribe them (oh, sorry, "lobby aggressively"). It's The American Way (tm).

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  2. Re:As opposed to... by toddhisattva · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You think scientists (especially climate scientists) have choosen that field for the celebrity and wealth that awaits??? Seriously???.
    Since this stuff has been going on for decades, yes, that's completely long enough for well-funded leftist opportunists to have completely corrupted a field.

    Why are the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Corrupt Climatology and the Union of Corrupt Scientists the biggest whiners on this issue?

    Their gig is up and they know it. Finally, somebody with money and balls is calling "bullshit" on these murderous bastards.
  3. American Study group is a bunch of sick bastards by Susceptor · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    these are fuckers that promoted the Iraq war. They are the ones that were responsible for such great hits as 'we will be greeted as liberators" and that the Iraq war would only cost a few billion dollars. makes me sick to see that this group of asses has such power in american politics. Cant we prosecute them? These people should lose their citizenship for treason and be sent to Iraq to enjoy the great democracy they helped create there.

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  4. Re:The Report by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The scientific method relies upon hypothesis and testing,

    How many earths have climatological theories been tested on? What's the statistical significance?

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