How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests

Lasrick writes Elected officials who want to block the EPA and legislation on climate change frequently refer to a handful of scientists who dispute anthropogenic climate change. One of scientists they quote most often is Wei-Hock Soon, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who claims that variations in the sun's energy can largely explain recent global warming. Newly released documents show the extent to which Dr. Soon has made a fortune from corporate interests. 'He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. At least 11 papers he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work.' The Koch Brothers are cited as a source of Dr. Soon's funding.

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Envy

[gmuslera]

Meanwhile paid slashdot deniers are getting the standard 30 pieces of silver for the same work.

Soros?

[SuperKendall]

if you want to play the money card... George Soros.

Only Soros spends a LOT more. And is wholly partisan in a way the Koch Brothers are not.

More than anything, the Koch Brothers seem to be some kind of hallucinogen, the way Democrats react to any mention of them.

I'd be careful of throwing that rock too hard from your ivory tower made of frosted glass...