I've heard from contrarian scientists that they don't have any trouble getting published and getting funded, but of course that also is only anecdotal evidence. (skepticalscience.com)
This seems to signal an awareness that after a while, journalists catch on to the connections between contrarian scientists and industry. (mediamatters.org)
So this can only be a reference to the «quickie» book Climategate: The CRUTape Letters, a book highly recommended by contrarian scientists like Roger Pielke Sr.. (deepclimate.org)