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“They have to pretend like they’re doing important research…”

Ouch! About 2 minutes into this video interview with a “left-of-centre environmentalist”, he says the following:

You have this army of university scientists, and they have to pretend like they’re doing important research, without ever criticizing powerful interests in a real way. So, what do they look for? They look for elusive, sanitized things, like acid rain, global warming… It helps to neutralize any kind of dissent.

I’m not interested in arguing (here) about AGW, but I work at a university, full-time, and have done for a long time, and, what can I say? This describes a lot of people I know. In fact, I’ll go further, and say that I don’t know who are criticizing powerful interests, with one possible exception (and he was doing research into John Foster Dulles and other dead white males).

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