Question about motives....?

Question

Why is it that tens of billions of dollars in govt funding for studies that conclude that more govt power is needed is rarely question, while any scientist who is skeptical of AGW is deemed to be discredited if he ever wrote a paper for a think tank that ever received a dime from a company related to the energy industry?

Exxon-Mobil gave a total of $19MM over the years to various think tanks - - governments spend tens of billions.

Answer 1

We are a media nation, companies who can financial benifit from a news story slanting one way or another pay people to discredit research either way. I feel as a nation we are looking for an excuse to not take action, so all we need is someone with credentials to say the right things and we can go on about being wasteful. I don't know why everyone is so caught up on Global Warming. Pollution and lack of resources like water and fossil fuels will ruin us long before our beach cities flood.

Answer 2

Governments spends tens of billions on research to understand scientific issues. Think tanks receive millions to fund people to cloud scientific issues.

And please, when you make accusations, you must back them up with relevant, reliable, unbiased documentation. Otherwise, how can you look credible to an objective mind?

EDIT - On the contrary, I don't trust you or anyone else who doesn't provide relevant, reliable, unbiased documentation. Your conspiracy theories bore me, but I will continue to address them. I suspect much to your chagrin.

Answer 3

The beauty of our government controlled schools.  We learn to believe what they want us to believe.  When we are given information we interpret it through that filter.

If we are taught in school that government is good and wise and solves all our problems and that corporations are evil and do nothing but cause problems, then that is what we tend to believe, irrespective of a mountain of evidence to the contrary.

Sheep on their way to the slaughterhouse trust the humans herding them to their death, after all they've always fed and protected us, why would they hurt us now.

Somehow some of the sheep failed to internalize these lessons, for some reason we question things and are not sated with pat answers.  We can't accept that the earth is flat and that the sun rises and falls.  And we don't accept doomsday scenarios, even if they come with a movie and starry eyed true believers.

Perhaps you and I in our genes, those few of us who are skeptics, we aren't sheep, even if the rest of our companions are.