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| Top University Stole Millions From Taxpayers By Faking Global Warming Research |
| 2016-10-25 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna A global warming research center at the London School of Economics got millions of dollars from UK taxpayers by taking credit for research it didn’t perform, an investigation by The Daily Mail revealed. The UK government gave $11 million dollars to the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) in exchange for research that the organization reportedly never actually did. Many papers CCCEP claimed to have published to get government money weren’t about global warming, were written before the organization was even founded, or were written by researchers unaffiliated with CCCEP. The government never checked CCCEP’s supposed publication lists, saying they were "taken on trust," according to the report. Why am I not surprised? |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 While the Left exploited Eisenhower's warning concerning the military industrial complex, they made sure the other part of his speech was not heard ever as loud - " Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers. The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded. Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientifictechnological elite." |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-25 23:17 |
| #6 The politicization of science in the universities goes on. Synonym for politicization is theft. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2016-10-25 17:53 |
| #5 Got it in one, iblis. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-25 17:21 |
| #4 To be fair, if they had actually done the research there was the the very real danger that the results might not have supported the narrative. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-10-25 17:20 |
| #3 You mean if you drop the E, Your Highness? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-25 16:54 |
| #2 Did anyone else notice the "CCCEP"? Did it look...oddly familiar? It should |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2016-10-25 16:32 |
| #1 Par for the course for "Global Warming" research. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2016-10-25 13:27 |