Stanford recently announced its new major research program for climate and energy: the "Strategic Energy Alliance"
Who's the alliance with? It turns out 3/4 of the funders are fossil fuel companies.
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Who's the alliance with? It turns out 3/4 of the funders are fossil fuel companies.
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It's just another example of the fossil fuel industry's invisible colonization of academia.
theguardian.com/environment/cl…
theguardian.com/environment/cl…
Don't think it has an effect?
At last spring's faculty discussion of fossil fuel divestment, the dean of the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences (who's also a former employee of both Exxon and Chevron) encouraged faculty to oppose divestment ...
At last spring's faculty discussion of fossil fuel divestment, the dean of the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences (who's also a former employee of both Exxon and Chevron) encouraged faculty to oppose divestment ...
warning support for divestment would “undermine those partnerships” with the oil and gas industry “so successfully cultivated over the years,” resulting in a shift of funding “away from Stanford toward other institutions.”
newrepublic.com/article/158086…
newrepublic.com/article/158086…
Lots of industries have long recognized the value of coopting experts by giving them funding.
Way back in 1978, Stanford economics professor (and later director of Stanford's public policy program) Bruce Owen advised regulated industries to "Coopt the experts," explaining...
Way back in 1978, Stanford economics professor (and later director of Stanford's public policy program) Bruce Owen advised regulated industries to "Coopt the experts," explaining...
"This is most effectively done by identifying the leading experts in each relevant field and hiring them as consultants or advisors, or giving them research grants and the like. This activity requires a modicum of finesse; it must not be too blatant ...
"for the experts themselves must not recognize that they have lost their objectivity and freedom of action.
At a minimum, a program of this kind reduces the threat that the leading experts will be available to testify or write against the interests of the regulated firms.”
At a minimum, a program of this kind reduces the threat that the leading experts will be available to testify or write against the interests of the regulated firms.”
(That's from "The Regulation Game: Strategic Use of the Administrative Process" by the way.)
amazon.com/Regulation-Gam…
amazon.com/Regulation-Gam…
Again & again we see industries under threat funding research strategically - to delay solutions, not accelerate them. Tobacco, sugar, lead, toxic chemicals...the list goes on.
Yet the obvious conflict of interest of fossil co's funding climate work remains normalized...for now
Yet the obvious conflict of interest of fossil co's funding climate work remains normalized...for now
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