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Originally Posted by blankall
Trying to buy science? I am no supporter of the neocon movement, but every scientific study has to get its funding from somewhere. Offereing rewards for info of any kind is totally not uncommon either. I used to work in a bio research lab. We had a board of problems that had outstanding rewards for them.
Even if you pay someone 10k you have to realize that the scientific community is not stupid. If you cannot back up your claim with good evidence it will not be considered to be valid.
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You don't think there's something odd about offering up money for specific conclusions, rather than actual neutral experimentation? Are the governments who sponsor climate reports (like the United States) funding these reports with the explicit assumption that they will prove human-caused global warming? Maybe thats the case... but as I mentioned above, no one's pointed it out here... yet. The article that starts the thread off doesn't really seem like 'just another source of scientific funding'.