This is the soft tyranny of the Progressive Left, whom Jonah Goldberg referred to as “nice fascists”. In their world, voluntary associations that they disapprove of must be cut. And they’ll take long fossil fueled trips in order to make sure you know it
Science Museums Urged to Cut Ties With Fossil Fuel Donors
Letter from Nobel laureates and other scientists goes to 330 institutions urging them to cut ties with the industry responsible for climate misinformation.
Hundreds of museums across the country––including some of the most prestigious––are being asked by more than 30 scientists to cut their ties to the fossil fuel industry.
In a letter sent to more than 330 science and natural history centers on Tuesday, the researchers said that when “some of the biggest…funders of misinformation on climate science” give millions of dollars to science-focused museums, it acts to “undermine public confidence in the validity of the institutions.”
“Museums are feeling budgetary crunches, and these donors bring in large sums of money,” said Beka Economopoulos, co-founder and director of the Brooklyn-based Natural History Museum, a new educational organization that coordinated the letter. “Museums, even unintentionally, are unlikely to bite the hand that feeds them. There is a threat of self-censorship where the philanthropy serves to make museums more reticent to offend the donor, or certainly to critique the practices of the donor.”
The Cult of Climastrology would prefer their version of censorship. Not to be outdone, here’s what the NY Times, the “Paper of Record”, runs. Same story, different tenor
Science Museums Urged to Cut Ties With Kochs
Dozens of climate scientists and environmental groups are calling for museums of science and natural history to “cut all ties†with fossil fuel companies and philanthropists like the Koch brothers.
A letter released on Tuesday asserts that such money is tainted by these donors’ efforts to deny the overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change.
The Koch brother, long a liberal bugaboo, have a long history of donating vast sums of their own money to help other people and institutions out in a charitable manner. No one has been able to show any sort of association for a quid pro quo or “self-censorship”. Rather than being lauded for their humanitarianism and philanthropy, they are insulted and assaulted. By people who a) do not give their own money to help out and b) refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels.
As usual, if leftists can’t win the argument, they try to silence dissenting views.
Makes sense in this case. There’s tons of money to be made studying and fighting the “dire threat” of climate. If all of this climate change turns out to be one big crock of sh*t, there are a lot of people who are going to see their revenue streams drying up and even more people who are going to be exposed as stupid dupes.
The concern is that museums turn into shills for corporate interests rather than distributors of information and repositories of human culture.
The concern is that museums and science centers may tailor their messages based on funding.
No strings funding for bettering society is desirable. Trading knowledge for advertising is not.
Teach the world has already seen that the danger of bad conservative faciscism
You trivialize this tragedy with this comparison
Is this an attempt to whitewash the actions of historical fascists?
My father fought and was wounded facism
These 30 scientists are not anything like “nice” fascists
One of the hallmarks of facism is that governments fail in the role of regulation of business by government
You make a good point. But, what if they turn into shills for other interest groups? Is that allowable?
However, that is NOT why these people are complaining.
Checked the 37 “scientists” and “Nobel laureates” who submitted the letter and the usual suspects show up:
Along with the “hockey team” (Hansen, Mann, Trenberth), a solar power lobbyist, a neuroscientist, a bee counter, an evangelical, and various other warming activists.
What a joke!
“The concern is that museums and science centers may tailor their messages based on funding.” True. And by far the largest “funder” of global warming is the government, dwarfing the funding of the other side. Again, J unknowingly makes our point for us.