zudobug wrote:
Such as Exxon influencing who runs the IPCC (see above post) - even if they did then get the wrong man for the job. :lol:
One of the problems with hand-picking scientists as spin-doctors is that scientists, unlike lawyers or politicians, are usually actually quite scientific and so have an an annoying habit of going where the evidence does. Unfortunately for the oil companies and the big industries, if they skip the scientists and elect their own people, they're about as credible as...well, Dick Cheney. And doubly unfortunately, they're fast running out of scientists who'll dig up 5% of the evidence to try to obfuscate the other 95%.
But there's always some gullible pseudoscientists left...check out
www.junkscience.com, which has now become a funny parody of its title. Be sure to smirk at their "People dead because of the ban on DDT" counter, and wonder why it's not a "People dead because pharmaceutecal companies don't care about drugs to treat malaria and are only interested in profiteering from fat and impotent Westerners" counter.
