Sentences with phrase «funded skeptic community»
While the ensuing fame increased demand for Solomon as a speaker and «expert» panelist within the fossil - fuel funded skeptic community, two things jump out as particularly strange about the book.
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If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»
The accusations of tribalism among the «climate community» have to do with funding, peer reviews, IPCC process etc. — something that the skeptics don't have equivalent versions of — YET.
If skeptics within the climate science community are starved of funding how would we know if they have a strong case or whether the so - called consensus is merely an artifact of them getting all the research grants?
The «Vampire Memo» from the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) draws on the work of such industry - funded skeptics as Pat Michaels, Fred Singer, Robert Balling and Craig Idso — as well as such ideologues as Richard Lindzen and William Gray who have long been laughingstocks in the community of mainstream climate scientists.
The global warming community spends a lot of time with ad hominem attacks on skeptics, usually accusing them of being in the pay of oil and power companies, but they all know that their own funding in turn would dry up rapidly if they were to show any bit of skepticism in their own work.