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Climate Science Denial Network Behind Great Barrington Declaration
- aww_dang 6y agoLogic suggests that we should evaluate the Great Barrington Declaration on its own merits, rather than conflating it with the climate debate. Furthermore, if we suggest that private funding of climate skepticism is illegitimate, then we should also question the validity of the state/supranational funding of the warmist program. Just as private actors may have a profit incentive, technocrats have an incentive in promulgating a technocratic regime. Additionally there may be 3rd parties positioning themselves to profit from the aforementioned regime of regulations. Hopefully reasonable people may be able to agree that a profit motive isn't necessarily evil. Similarly, government/supranational institutions and the individuals within are not absolute in their nature. Blanketedly tarring and feathering the outcome of a program or research simply because of an implied profit motive strikes me as illogical. Additionally it is hypocritical in the context of potential technocratic conflicts of interest.