[opendtv] Re: A Station Group with a Future

So, there is something wrong with scientists working for money?

John Willkie

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> On Behalf Of Tom Barry
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> Subject: [opendtv] Re: A Station Group with a Future
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> 
> John Shutt wrote:
> > There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.
> 
> And also paid-for lies, damn lies, and statistics.
> 
>  From yesterday's Slashdot article:
> <http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/02/1511229>
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Scientists Offered Cash to Dispute Climate Study
> 
> "According to an article in the Guardian
> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2004399,00.html>,
> 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."

 
 
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