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Why We Can’t Trust Scientists Anymore

You have read my rants about the “revolving door” of science in past posts on this site. That is when corporate scientists researching the safety of substances, then go to work for the government regulatory agencies approving or disproving the substance for use or purchase by consumers. It happens all the time in the agricultural industry. For example, a scientist for Monsanto will go to work for the Environmental Protection Agency or the US Department of Agriculture.
A lesser known and less publicized fact of “science” is when the scientists are paid outright by the corporations to become the “media face” of skepticism while touting the corporation’s view on a controversial subject, for example, global climate change. The fact these scientists are paid by the corporations is not known by the gullible public watching them spew the corporation’s propaganda in the media.
Greenpeace research recently exposed an Ivy League professor who has deep financial ties to radical right corporate money. Documents obtained by Greenpeace show a prominent opponent of climate change was funded by oil and coal corporations, among others, as John Vidal reports on the Guardian.co.uk site,

One of the world’s most prominent scientific figures to be sceptical about climate change has admitted to being paid more than $1m in the past decade by major US oil and coal companies.
Dr Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, is known for his view that global warming and the melting of the arctic sea ice is caused by solar variation rather than human-caused CO2 emissions, and that polar bears are not primarily threatened by climate change.
But according to a Greenpeace US investigation , he has been heavily funded by coal and oil industry interests since 2001, receiving money from ExxonMobil , the American Petroleum Insitute and Koch Industries along with Southern, one of the world’s largest coal-burning utility companies. Since 2002, it is alleged, every new grant he has received has been from either oil or coal interests.

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