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Originally Posted by suspectnumber961
Leaked documents from the free-market conservative organization The Heartland Institute reveal a plan to create school educational materials that contradict the established science on climate change.
In the area of climate change, the leaked documents revealed that the group funds vocal climate skeptics, including Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change founder Craig Idso ($11,600 per month), physicist Fred Singer ($5,000 plus expenses per month), and New Zealand geologist Robert Carter ($1,667 per month). They've also pledged $90,000 to skeptical meteorologist Anthony Watts,
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Good!
More critical thinking and more information presented would do everyone some good.
This trendy rash of new young "climate scientists" along with the politicization of the issue has gone way too far in perverting, corrupting, and discrediting real science. Sadly, there may be little hope in ever restoring the public confidence in science unless partisan control over research funding is removed from the picture, and the peer review process is restored back to what it once was.