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Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study
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."
...report writes you! ((Or, better, the market writes the reports))
Truly, in a capitalist environment, the markets should decide who is write and wrong. Science should be chosen by those with good money sense.
Ugh.
No, it doesn't mean their scientific findings aren't valid. But it sure the hell does mean they're financially motivated.
Well, threatening climatologists with decertification doesn't invalidate their findings either, but it sure as hell means they are being forcibly "motivated".
Instead, we see the weather channel threatening climatologists' jobs for the predetermined outcome of 'scientific' research. And that, my friend, is why I feel compelled to keep "making cheap ad hominem attacks." Because the Weather Channel is pissing science down their leg and the public is paying not attention to it when they should. It's as if the Weather Channel is offering the $10,000 for the report proving global warming is our fault?
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