Billy_Bob
Diamond Member
It's funny how when grants go to scientists who work on AGW it becomes 'greedy scientists' but when it goes to Willie Soon it's someone else's.perhaps the govt funding agencies should also have put in a production clause when it came to the nepotic Shakla/IEGS/COLA boondoggle. apparent;y the 10s of millions spent havent actually produced much in the way of published papers or data. Soon applied for grants on specific topics, which were given to Harvard/Smithsonian, who in turn passed on a fraction to Soon, who then produced the work.
Shakla managed to get funding over and above his GMS salary, which he used to pay himself and many of his family, and little actual science was produced for large and ongoing funding. the publicity over the RICO letter has tweeked the interest of Congress in the financial peculiarities of Shakla & Co.
I could never actually figure out what Soon had done wrong. if it was failure to promenently and specifically name his funding, then there is a large double standard because many/or most science groups could be held up on the same charge.
That's not true.
Disclosures are quite clearly required when publishing in most journals, and especially in a topic this controversial, authors will not bury them unless they are trying to hide them.
Not sure about this Shakla thing, since it seems like a denier witch hunt and the 'facts' are sketchy, but the Soon issue is pretty egregious.
The Smithsonian and Harvard were the recipients of the grants. What they did with those grants was up to the institutions not Soon. So how do you project any kind of maleficence onto Soon when it was the institutions who hired Soon and paid him? Soon CLEARLY INDICATED WHOM HE WORKED FOR!
Are you going hold Mann,Trenbreth and many others to the same standard? Penn state was given 5.7 million dollars by Shell Oil for Mann's work and he failed to disclose it.. Oh thats right, it was for your agenda, so its ok...
The issue is disclosure. Don't know what your issue with Mann is, but I do not believe he's ever been hit for disclosure ethical violations- if he had, you guys would be creaming in your pants daily about it.
There was no need for disclosure... He did what was required. Now how are you going to deal with Mann and his failures? Trenbreth and his failures?
You left wing hacks are amazingly stupid.