MiniSky: Thoughts About Everything

When I write blog posts challenging the wisdom and effect of regulations, I get called a “shill” and asked how much my soul cost, because one of my benefactors is partly funded by parts of the oil industry. The idea is that you can’t trust Exxon on environmental issues because environmental laws would affect Exxon’s ability to make money. By extension, you can’t trust me.

This week, the British government issued a report declaring that global warming would be catastrophic, and the next day it uses this report as the reason to push “enabling powers” to give the government more control over people’s lives.

The conflict of interest seems much more direct in the latter. The media only seem to notice the former.