It is a strategy that was taken directly from the playbook of the tobacco industry that discovered in the 1970s that when there is scientific consensus on an issue, in that case, that smoking causes cancer, there are always willing scientists who, for the right price, will deny the facts and create a distortion and delay in action.
International collaboration isn't possible if willing scientists can't find anyone to collaborate with.
It began with a "blind date -type meeting, organisedate -typelifton Scientific Trust, where willing scientists, were paired up with keen teachers.
[For an example of one such tool, see "Literature Searchlight," EHP 112 A872 (2004).] The real test is how willing scientists are to use these tools.
One idea is to offer willing senior scientists enough funding to wind down their labs over a few years.
He ignores the fact that those scientists willing to feed the false "scientists are exaggerating" narrative are the true darlings of the "balance" over "objectivity" school of news reporting -- a school of thought that Nate sadly seems to have subscribed to.
"We want to see politicians who, if they're not necessarily scientists, are willing to listen to scientists and are willing to take on board the evidence that surrounds them, rather than ignore it completely," said Singh.
When George W. Bush was elected, his administration had a hard time finding a scientist willing to serve as his science advisor.
At breakfast time, Radio 4's Today programme informed listeners that despite extensive efforts, the BBC had been unable to find a single British scientist willing to challenge the IPCC's findings.
It seems highly unlikely that science will ever penetrate the ultimate mysteries that religion deals in and it probably will not even seriously try, although of course it is not hard to find a scientist willing to pontificate about virtually any subject you want.
