"Wirt Atmar" wrote:
> The standard tactic of these groups (the funders of the various 
> anti-regulation
> institutes ) is to find and fund marginal scientists
> in order to produce a significant array of misleading -- or outrightly
> incorrect -- reports and then point to the scientific "controversy" that 
> exists about
> the subject.

According to the quoted New York Time article, it seems that Exxon is 
funding, not "marginal scientists", but mouthpieces, various lobbying groups 
who point to these "marginal scientists", presumably both of them, and claim 
dissension. It may seem like a small difference, but it is not 
insignificant.

Greg Stigers 

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