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Does every climate scientist's livelihood depend on repeating a lie that they know to be a lie? Do you think that little of professional scientists? People don
by beat 12y ago
Does every climate scientist's livelihood depend on repeating a lie that they know to be a lie? Do you think that little of professional scientists?
People don't go into hard science to get rich. They do it because they're obsessed with the truth. And career advancement, such as it is, happens not from "towing the company line", but rather from breakthroughs that directly challenge the conventional wisdom. That's how science works in social terms.
So you have the rewards exactly backwards. If the facts are truly against climate change, then scientists who use the facts to question climate change would be rewarded for it, not punished!
- cholantesh 12y agoThe salaries afforded to lobbyists and spin doctors in the employ of the fossil fuel industry, on the other hand...