Re: Do you honestly care about Global Warming?
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Most of these people spent 4-5 of their post college years living off of what is probably a $6 an hour 'stipend' earning their Ph.D. only to get an academic job that pays less than an airplane mechanic when they could easily go into industry and earn a boatload more.
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Seems to me that if the "lots of money" argument were true, it should also apply to lots of other areas of scientific research. Why isn't the same accusation of exaggerating and alarmism leveled at biologists studying some aspect of cell function, or the developmental psychologist investigating how children acquire language? I mean, they or most other researchers are just as capable of trumping up alarming consequences of failure to fund their research. Why are climatologists singled out in that regard?
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