Tuesday, December 1, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Bret Stephens: Climategate: Follow the Money - Climate change researchers must believe in the reality of global warming just as a priest must believe in the existence of God - '...None of these outfits is per se corrupt, in the sense that the monies they get are spent on something other than their intended purposes. But they depend on an inherently corrupting premise, namely that the hypothesis on which their livelihood depends has in fact been proved. Absent that proof, everything they represent -- including the thousands of jobs they provide—vanishes. This is what's known as a vested interest, and vested interests are an enemy of sound science...'
