....and then they claim that if you work in the private sector instead of government or academia, then you’re just a whore, and any anti-AGW research you do is just for money and you’re to be ignored. See how neatly that all ties up?
The same attitude exists in biomedical research. If you work for Big Pharma or even get research funding from Big Pharma, you are considered a corporate sellout. Never mind that most of the major medical breakthroughs in recent years have come from privately sponsored research rather than government funding through NIH, NCI, etc. Tom (not John) Stossel from Harvard has written a revealing book about the conflict-of-interest myth in corporate-sponsored pharmaceutical resarch.