A Fuel and its Money

Ethically challenged mental midgets are cock-a-hoop with antipreneurial joy today, having scored another petty yet perilous victory against the American Dream. Greenpeace discovered that a prominent climate change denier was accepting seven-figure sums in research funding from the likes of Exxon Mobil; which of course did not affect his scientific conclusions in the least, any more than funding from Big Government would bias a scientist in favour of high taxes, public healthcare and other forms of socialist collectivism. Nevertheless, donors have been embarrassed into cutting off the funds, and one electric utility has even been subjected to queries about why it is throwing money at bad science when it might be reducing bills. The bad scientist himself had a bit of a squeal via the website of the Heartland Institute, a market-fundamentalist madrasa based in Chicago, and apparently it's all a conspiracy.