A fascinating exercise for any
objective reporter to
undertake would be to ask the student to cite actual physical evidence (full context document scans, undercover video / audio transcripts, leaked emails, money - transfer receipts, etc.) proving skeptic scientists were paid to fabricate demonstratively false science papers, reports,
assessments or viewpoints — material that could stand up in a courtroom evidentiary hearing proving a pay - for - performance arrangement exists.
Accordingly, it follows from all of the foregoing that, in view of the
objectives underlying Article [107 (1) TFEU] and the private investor test, an economic advantage must — even where it has been granted through fiscal means — be assessed inter alia in the light of the private investor test, if, on conclusion of the global
assessment that may be required, it appears that, notwithstanding the fact that the means used were instruments of State power, the Member State concerned conferred that advantage in its capacity as shareholder of the
undertaking belonging to it.»