Stephan:   The outstanding thing that stands out about scientists, and institutes and other entities that are created by NGCS money to play a denier role is their mediocrity. (See my essay: The Denier Movements Critique Evolution, Climate Change, and Nonlocal Consciousness. http://www.explorejournal.com/article/S1550-8307%2810%2900039-X/fulltext). It takes a certain, what can I call it, ethical looseness, to play the disinformation, propaganda game, and whore your degrees for money. Sadly, as with the rest of our culture even some prominent figures in medicine, chemistry, and agriculture research do so. It is a growing problem. The difficulty they all face though is that because their arguments are specious, it is never first class work. The Heartland Institute is perhaps the classic example of the type of people and institutes I mean. Here is their latest exploit.