Undercover Activists Buy Off Professors in Climate Sting
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Undercover Activists Buy Off Professors in Climate Sting
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#2Will this be enough to fire tenured professors?
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#3Hm, I feel like this is way less sinister than it sounds. From what I know of his prior reputation, Will Happer has long made his position on climate change clear, so it's not like he changed his mind when people offered him a big pile of money.
If you already believe something and someone is going to give you money to promote your views, why on earth would you say no?
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#4I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of cash. Anyone want to let me know who will buy off a math professor?
Re: Undercover Activists Buy Off Professors in Climate Sting
#5Will this be enough to fire tenured professors?
One of them, Frank Clemente, is emeritus. He retired in 2010, and gets whatever pension or such PSU offers. I wonder what their disciplinary options are. This is clearly a case of an end-of-career cash-out of social/political capital.
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#6Hm, I feel like this is way less sinister than it sounds. From what I know of his prior reputation, Will Happer has long made his position on climate change clear, so it's not like he changed his mind when people offered him a big pile of money. If you already believe something and someone is going to give you money to promote your views, why on earth would you say no?
1) Intentionally hiding the source of funding; aka taking a bribe.
2) Intentionally publishing in a sham journal to avoid peer review.
These are both tolerable behavior in the free market, but ought to be firable offenses for university professors.
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#7I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of cash. Anyone want to let me know who will buy off a math professor?
The cigarrette companies hire statisticians to publish bogus research about the health effects of smoking.
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#8I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of cash. Anyone want to let me know who will buy off a math professor?
Can you use statistics to make the Koch's latest tax plan work?
Re: Undercover Activists Buy Off Professors in Climate Sting
#9I feel like I'm missing out on a lot of cash. Anyone want to let me know who will buy off a math professor?
Hiring a math professor to claim that squaring a circle is possible. 10M OBO.
Re: Undercover Activists Buy Off Professors in Climate Sting
#10Hm, I feel like this is way less sinister than it sounds. From what I know of his prior reputation, Will Happer has long made his position on climate change clear, so it's not like he changed his mind when people offered him a big pile of money. If you already believe something and someone is going to give you money to promote your views, why on earth would you say no?
1) Intentionally hiding the source of funding; aka taking a bribe. 2) Intentionally publishing in a sham journal to avoid peer review. These are both tolerable behavior in the free market, but ought to be firable offenses for university professors.
If applied universally there would be significantly fewer professors. But I don't really think that would be a bad thing.