Guess Who Has Been Secretly Funding a Famous Climate-Change Denying Scientist?

As the book-turned-film Merchants of Doubt exposed, corporations like tobacco companies have found a way to muddle the science on issues affecting their profits: throw some money at it. (Full disclosure: The film was produced by Participant Media, TakePart's parent company.)

In the midst of a climate change crisis, that’s just what the fossil fuel industry has been doing. And the latest scientist linked to the clandestine practice is Wei-Hock Soon.

According to The New York Times, politicians fighting climate change legislation often cite the work of the scientist, who’s employed by the Smithsonian Institution on a part-time basis. Though he’s often referred to as a “Harvard astrophysicist” on conservative news shows, Soon has never worked for the Ivy League school. His degree is in aerospace engineering.

According to recently released documents, he’s received at least $1.2 million from fossil fuel companies while omitting that connection in the majority of his scientific papers over the past decade. Since 2008, he failed to disclose conflict of interest in at least 11 studies—a violation of the guidelines of the journals that released them.

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