Likewise, since before I ever became a skeptic, the establishment climate scientists and their supporters have been characterizing, ad infinitum, the skeptical community as
shills of the
oil industry and other large industrial concerns, and especially as
paid - off pawns of right - wing think tanks and right - wing concerns.
Understanding why idiots like James Inhofe and
paid shills of the fossil fuel industry make absurd HOAX statements is easy — they get
paid for it by extremely wealthy
oil companies.