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WanderingEng · 3060 days ago · link · · parent · post: How you Buy a Professor's Academic Credibility
Shouldn't it be if the report is confirmed and the reports from the professors contain falsified data or conclusions? Maybe I'm jaded, but I found nothing surprising here. Professors at research schools are paid by outside parties to perform research. Any complex issue will have multiple, factually true sides to it. Even more challenging is any study that requires assumptions. By skewing assumptions one way or another while keeping them reasonable, it's easy to skew the outcome one way or another. The article seems to be making a genetic fallacy. Because the money came from oil or coal, any result must be inherently distrustworthy.If this report is confirmed, the two scientists should have their degrees revoked