Tied Up And Gagged

clipped from www.quadrant.org.au The scientists have been tied up and gagged in the back room. I hate that. We were there screaming our lungs out all along. Some important research fields have been “orchestrated” out of existence. Even before Climategate, I have been saying that we have set ourselves back a generation by taking the money from governments with so many strings attached. Governments leaders wanted something where they could absolve themselves of the responsibility for making informed decisions. They would have to read science stuff otherwise. They ordered up a kind of unnatural scientist that would tell them precisely what they wanted to hear. But they gave the puppeteers clubs to deal with those of us who remained true. And the perps of Climategate are what they got. All of my colleagues have had to endure these bullies and criminals for a very long time. You should understand that (real) scientists have had to pay the heaviest price for the creation of these monsters for decades.