Who would ever have guessed that scientists could be influenced by big money from the oil industry, or for that matter, from the tobacco industry, or the meat industry, or the dairy industry, or the drug industry, or the GMO industry.

These charlatans are giving science itself a black eye.

Scientists should be required to identify publicly all those who fund the research they do.

Senators, representatives, politicians from countries all over the world who denied climate change. Make a list of their names so that, in 100 or 500 years, our descendants could say "these people had a chance to pull their heads out of their asses and do something, but instead they deliberately chose to do nothing."

Wei-Hock Soon and the Koch brothers, on the other hand, could go on a list of people who actively went out of their way to be evil and to screw billions of members of the human race, for all of the rest of the planet's history. Millions if not billions could suffer and starve and die because, specifically, of these few sociopaths. For money, more money than they could ever actually need, these few people may have taken the planet, the only planet known for certain in the entire universe to have sentient life, beyond the brink.

It's one thing to be a politician who isn't a scientist, is easily swayed, and who is not particularly bright. This guy and the Kochs deserve to be synonymous with evil for all time.

Tobacco perfected the use of paid experts