MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Heartland leaker is scientist Peter Gleick, says documents are all real
By Donal on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 3:14pm |The news about Heartland Institute just took a decidedly odd turn. Recently, internal documents leaked from the far-right group revealed their antiscience agenda, including their funding strategy, donor list, and most startlingly a paper outlining their strategy to "dissuade teachers from teaching science".
When these documents were posted, Heartland started threatening the sites hosting them, as well as bloggers who wrote about them (including a 71-year-old veteran). This part is very important: Heartland has made repeated claims that the strategy paper is a fake.
Now, the leaker has outed himself: Peter Gleick, a research scientist with the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, which among other things investigates the impact of hydrology on human health and how climate change plays into it.
URL:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/02/21/breaking-news-heartland-leaker-is-scientist-peter-gleick-says-documents-are-all-real/
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