So your solution is to simply stop paying researchers altogether? You're aware that Soon was already making an excellent salary for Harvard. This money from Exxon Mobil was above and beyond that money and gives every appearance of having been paid out in exchange for certain specific conclusions to be reached by Soon's "research" papers. That is a clear violation of scientific integrity and in many countries constitutes fraud for which Soon would have gone to prison. His violation of the editorial policies of the journals publishing his work will do him more damage in the American research environment. He is going to have a very difficult time getting anything published by anyone and, as I'm sure you've heard, the academic central maxim is "publish or die".
I'm not dictating a damn thing, bitch.
I'm not dictating a damn thing, bitch.