What. The. Fuck.

[the_siobhan]

Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report published by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Friday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2004399,00.html

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[cris.livejournal.com]

heh, I was listening to the radio the other day when news of this was circulating, and the spokesman for the thinktank that's offering the incentives was basically saying, "we aren't bribing anyone. and I'm shocked (shocked)that you would hold such a low opinion of scientists to think that their ethics and morality could be bought. I can't believe that you would cast such aspersions by insinuating that they could be bribed. we're simply rewarding and encouraging the process of peer review."

dude, like, put the copy of 1984 down and slowly turn away from the doublespeak.