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Ford_Prefect

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4. It strikes me this is but one of many such items authored by pet researchers of the extraction and petrochemical
Sat Nov 18, 2023, 04:37 PM
Nov 2023

industries . They have a long established practice of setting up so-called "research institutes" whose inmates do nothing but pump out papers like this one using similar claims which propagandize against established science the anti-climate change agenda. Another route to the same end is to endow research chairs at selected universities which are then staffed with compliant scientists. Big Tobacco used and still has similar arrangements to give cover to their false claims.

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