How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions

Except that has been used against legitimate climate scientists.I had to explain to a friend who was going off on the “climate scientists getting paid to publish on climate change” talking point that the kind of grants they are receiving are around minimum wage, vs. the climate change deniers who fly from sound bite to sound bite in private planes and never actually do research.

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