In what could turn out to be helpful news for the reality-based community, a new trove of documents show that one of the leading "scientific critics" of global warming has been funded directly by the fossil fuel industries. Wei-Hock Soon, who goes by "Willie," has traded on his position as a part-time employee of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to present himself as a legitimate scientist who's simply not convinced that human activity is responsible for climate change, which has made him very popular with conservative groups and politicians. But documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show that his research was directly paid for by industry sources, to the tune of over $1.2 million. Worse, he's published at least 11 papers that failed to disclose those payments, a serious no-no in scientific ethics.
This goes beyond just the Leftist political agenda of Big Climate... This is the work of Big Ethics. What a bunch of freakin commies, insisting on disclosing conflicts of interest and legitimate conclusions based on evidence and not who's paying you that day... It's un-American.
You've been hacking into my nanny-cam again!
Inhofe is just a meat puppet with Exxon's hand up his ass.~
Was Dr. Soon the one bush43 used to say Saddam had 'yellowcake' to make WMD with? I suspect that would have been a 'deliverable'.
Every good engineer is a little bit of a scientist, and every good scientist is a little bit of an engineer. It's clear this guy is neither.
I see what you did there.
This goes beyond just the Leftist political agenda of Big Climate... This is the work of Big Ethics. What a bunch of freakin commies, insisting on disclosing conflicts of interest and legitimate conclusions based on evidence and not who's paying you that day... It's un-American.
he's got it down to a science!
This is going out to all my EE friends and family. You can't spell GEEK without EE!
Capitalism at work. What's the big deal?
awesome
I will FLIP BURGERS before I help folks pull stuff out of the ground and burn it! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my scrabble game.
Oh, also, Asian-American.
Sooner Senator, Southern, Soon? Coming soon to a lawsuit near you.
Say what you will, but the GOP is not in bed with Big Ethics.
Oh ew. Now I need to bleach my brain. Thanks for that.
Suddenly I'm hungry for a big dish of beef chow mein. Wha, who?