Dr. Richard Lindzen is an American atmospheric physicist and retired Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In an important interview, Lindzen states (beginning around 7:20) that:
The trouble is all of us scientists are government employees—even if we’re working for private universities. All research is supported by the government. As such we’re very sensitive to what politicians say and believe. That’s a shortcoming.
You have to figure out how to fund science in a way that there are no incentives to artificially promoting things.
When you hear for instance a scientist saying ‘the science is settled,’ you know the person has stepped out of the science.
Whenever you see someone say—instead of answering arguments—‘how could so many people agree if it weren’t true?’ That should be a red flag.
