Re:Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation
by Zuider on Saturday January 23, 2021 @02:21PM
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I am sure you meant it in good faith, but your link provides an appalling slander on the reputation of Dr. Wei Hock Soon, a solar physicist of good standing. The lurid claims that a coal company bribed him to produce results that were false and favourable to them is demonstrably untrue. In the interests of collegiality and civilised conversation, please retract it immediately.
Re:Twitter Bots Are a Major Source of Climate Disinformation
by tw04 on Saturday January 23, 2021 @02:50PM
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Appalling slander? He was caught taking proverbial blood money thanks to the FOIA from companies like the Charles Koch foundation. I will absolutely not retract the statement, and unless you have a better explanation for his funding than he did, I'd suggest you retract your claim that he's been acting honorably or honestly.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash...
I'd argue that's pretty easy to refute. Just look how quickly the Q-Anon nonsense has spread. And they weren't even trying to pretend to be legitimate, they just kept making up crazier and crazier statements "for the lulz".
> As for costs: the big one would be the damage to your reputation, as an individual, company, and industry, that would follow if the public found out. I'm having trouble imaging a scenario where you run such an operation, certainly involving a dozen people or so, without ever pissing one of them off sufficiently to see them calling a reporter.
They were already caught funding the climate science denial reports despite knowing what was really going on. There was almost no backlash, why do you presume it would be any different this time?
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate-scientist-oil-com...