Conflicts of interest in climate change science (opens in new tab)

The problems with today's scientific research establishment go far beyond financial conflicts of interest, or climate science.

Sociologically speaking, science and scientists are a huge established church and priesthood.

Supposedly 99.97% honest, self-policing...and amazingly hesitant to accept real outside oversight.

If you want a sense for how well that self-policing thing actually works out - do a search for "Roman Catholic Church abuse".

Good questions were asked.

Also, the discrepancies with other areas of research should be worrying:

> None of the 331 authors disclosed COIs [(Conflicts of Interest)]. Not a single one.

> This is surprising because:

> COI disclosures in other areas of research, such as bioscience, range from about 17% to 33%;