 Flopping Aces
(the name always reminds me of growing old) tuned me on to this New
York Times story (yes, I'm surprised) Global-Warming
Payola? My experience is that every citation from the slew of
expert studies debunking man-caused global warming will be followed by
the " that study was funded by
big oil, you capitalist pawn." e-mail. Here John Tierney
cites a parallel.
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These
criticisms remind me of what happened to scientists who dissented from
the “consensus” on the dangers of dietary fat in the 1970s, which I
wrote about in this column about Gary Taubes’ book, “Good Calories, Bad
Calories.” The skeptics were eventually vindicated by studies casting
doubt on the link between fat and heart disease and cancer, but not
before some of them were marginalized by accusations that they’d been
corrupted by research grants from food companies.
What made these smears especially unfair, Mr. Taubes writes, is that
the money from food companies was trivial compared with the money being
doled out by government agencies. One of the researchers who’d
supposedly been bought off noted that he’d received $250,000 from the
food industry in his career versus $10 million from government agencies
— and wondered why this didn’t make him a “tool of government.”
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BTW, I believe it was the Greenhouse Conspiracy that
interviewed climate scientists about restrictions placed on their U.S.
Government grants (then controlled by Sen. Al Gore). If you
didn't play ball, your grant was not renewed. The ultimate
payola. Are you listening Prince Goofy?
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