{"id":28446,"date":"2012-02-15T08:51:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T13:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=28446"},"modified":"2012-02-15T08:51:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T13:51:28","slug":"fake-science-funny-finances-to-confuse-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/fake-science-funny-finances-to-confuse-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Science & Funny Finances (to Confuse You)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is a tremendous post that is the result of tremendous research by John Mashey of DeSmog Blog<\/a> (and other publications). It exposes some pretty weird science and finances regarding some of the top global warming deniers in the world. To put it simply, it seems there is nothing moral about these people or institutions at all.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>by John Mashey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Modern anti-science was created by the tobacco industry in the 1950s and then used against climate science, often by the same well-experienced think tanks and individuals.\u00a0 Tobacco anti-science is strangely entangled with climate anti-science, as the attached report shows in detail involving Fred Singer’s\u00a0SEPP, Joseph Bast’s Heartland, and\u00a0more.<\/p>\n

S. Fred Singer<\/strong>\u00a0is President of the\u00a0Science and Environmental Policy Project<\/strong>\u00a0(SEPP), but has done almost all the work himself for 20 years., including help for tobacco in the early 1990s. Research for\u00a0Weird Science<\/a>\u00a0sent me on a\u00a0 trek through his and other\u00a0IRS\u00a0Form 990s, which unearthed many curiosities of strange governance, fakery and funny finances, all\u00a0tax-free.<\/p>\n

Singer claimed\u00a0Frederick Seitz<\/strong>\u00a0as Chairman for two years after his demise and 20 years after a Philip Morris staffer had written in\u00a01989:<\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Seitz is quite elderly and not sufficiently rational to offer\u00a0advice.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

SEPP\u2019s finances were\u00a0curious<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>SEPP\u00a0paid no salaries, even for Singer\u2019s 60-hour workweeks.\u00a0 Money flowed oddly. \u00a0Asset trades often exceeded normal income and they accumulated to $1.5M, tax-free.\u00a0\u00a0 Then one money trail led to\u00a0Heartland.<\/p>\n

Heartland Institute\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0Joseph Bast<\/strong>\u00a0staunchly defended \u201cJoe Camel,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0the infamous campaign to addict younger children. \u00a0Heartland got tobacco funding for many years, along with a Philip Morris Board\u00a0member.<\/p>\n

Whitney Ball<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0DONORS\u00a0TRUST\u00a0funded a major expansion of Heartland climate anti-science.\u00a0 Singer collected old associates to help write \u201cNonGovernmental International Panel on Climate Change\u201c (NIPCC) reports, filled with unsupported claims and long-refuted\u00a0anti-science.<\/p>\n

He was helped by\u00a0Craig Idso<\/strong>, of the\u00a0Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (CDCDGC)<\/strong>, whose money flows also seem unusual.\u00a0 Robert Ferguson\u2019s Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) was a website and a\u00a0\u00a0PO\u00a0Box in a\u00a0UPS\u00a0store and he was actually a\u00a0CSCDGC\u00a0employee.<\/p>\n

Under\u00a0Jay Lehr\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0James Taylor<\/strong>, anti-science permeated Heartland\u2019s Environment and Climate News (E&CN)<\/em>\u00a0sent mostly to elected officials. \u00a0Heartland incessantly touted its access and influence with such officials, but its tax forms claimed no lobbying.\u00a0 It ran \u201cfake science\u201d conferences, paying for government staff attendance.\u00a0 It sent money to foreign non-charity advocacy groups, sent anti-science handbooks to school boards and urged parents to complain.\u00a0 It has been criticized in\u00a0Nature<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Free speech allows people to express opinions, even lie about facts,\u00a0but tax-free operation is a revocable privilege<\/strong>.\u00a0 Spreading factual untruths and confusion about smoking or climate science is neither research nor education in the public\u00a0interest.<\/p>\n

Read the report, at least the first 21 pages, backed by nearly 200 of detailed\u00a0backup.<\/p>\n

This report was scheduled to be published in a few days,\u00a0 and by astonishing coincidence, just today we see\u00a0Heartland Institute Exposed<\/a>.\u00a0 The report was done entirely from public sources, but today’s new information is quite consistent and fills some holes.\u00a0 However, the unnamed large Anonymous donor is now seen to be someone hiding behind\u00a0DONORS\u00a0TRUST, and some of the smaller ones dedicating funds appear in pp.57-59, with red itemizations. We also see some of the actual payments I had to\u00a0infer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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