For months since getting a deluge of responses to the survey on sceptics I’ve been trying to find some way to get funding to hire in the necessary resources to do the funding and/or work with a group who have the resources themselves.
My first point of call was to write to government in both England and Scotland. Their response was: “we don’t want to know anything about sceptics”. I doubt if I were an academic I would have had the same insulting response.
Unfortunately, my next port of call was academia, but because UK academics include people like Lewandowsky and as most of UK academia appear to me to be openly hostile to sceptics I don’t believe they can be trusted on this. But I did put feelers out whenever I spotted someone in the right kind of area who was not openly hostile to sceptics. But nothing came of it and slowly I ran out of ideas of who to try. Continue reading →

In an article referring to Global Warming activists Randal Simonetti  a consultant in reputational management spells out the truth we sceptics know, the activists are primarily driven by money:-

“you must first consider the driving motive that supports the attacker’s existence. In this case, the environmental group, like many other social activist organizations, is dependent on contributions from people who share their cause. Most of these organizations are hungry for publicity and public awareness so being involved in a sensational story in which they appear as the protector supports their financial goals.

As is often the case, funding is a primary driver of any activist organization’s behavior.

… Once the activist organization realizes you have exposed their funding strategy to the very contributors they depend on, they will cease the attack.”

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Randal Simonetti | Reputation & Crisis Management