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Originally Posted by hatedbythemail
of course the rs doesnt actually have the power to prevent exxon funding 'research' so their right to free speech isn't denied.
one of the key points here is that exxon is funding multiple organisations (which the rs says are of dubious origin) rather than a single, reputable scientific orghanisation. This, the rs alleges, suggests that opposition to the general scientific consensus is more widespread than it in fact is. In short, my reading is that they are saying its just a pr tactic.
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My concern is not so much with whether someone's right to free speech is being eroded. With ExxonMobil on their side, that is very unlikely to happen. What worries me is the apparent sacrifice of proper scientific method and objectivity on the part of the Royal Society.
One columnist I read this weekend - either the Sunday Express or Sunday Herald, I forget which - suggested that some climate scientists are beginning to sound worryingly like a priestood, for whom climate change is an article of faith, rather than a scientific theory open to challenge and revision.