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Scientists Tell Natural History Museums to Shun Billionaire Donor and Climate Change–Denier David Koch
"How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country"
Should science museums be taking funding from fossil fuel interest groups?
Sarah Cascone, March 25, 2015
David Koch. Photo: AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack/Marek Szumlas via Shutterstock.
Should the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, be accepting funding from known climate change–denier David Koch? An open letter from 39 scientists is calling on the two museums to cut ties with the billionaire, who has made substantial donations to, and sits on the board of both institutions.
Published by the mobile Natural History Museum, a project from arts collective Not an Alternative, the letter questions how either museum can maintain its scientific integrity when they are accepting support from Koch, who owns oil manufacturing conglomerate Koch Industries, and other special interest groups in the fossil fuel industry that seek to obstruct clean energy initiatives and obscure the truth of climate change.
The letter was sent in response to a recently published study by scientist Willie Soon, which received $1.25 million in funding from “the Koch brothers, Exxon Mobil, American Petroleum Institute and other covert funders,” as per the Natural History Museum. A statement on the museum website describes the study as “junk science denying man-made climate change” that “failed to disclose any funding-related conflicts of interest.”
With links, and more - https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/david-koch-natural-history-museums-281214
"How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country"
Should science museums be taking funding from fossil fuel interest groups?
Sarah Cascone, March 25, 2015
David Koch. Photo: AP/Phelan M. Ebenhack/Marek Szumlas via Shutterstock.
Should the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, be accepting funding from known climate change–denier David Koch? An open letter from 39 scientists is calling on the two museums to cut ties with the billionaire, who has made substantial donations to, and sits on the board of both institutions.
Published by the mobile Natural History Museum, a project from arts collective Not an Alternative, the letter questions how either museum can maintain its scientific integrity when they are accepting support from Koch, who owns oil manufacturing conglomerate Koch Industries, and other special interest groups in the fossil fuel industry that seek to obstruct clean energy initiatives and obscure the truth of climate change.
The letter was sent in response to a recently published study by scientist Willie Soon, which received $1.25 million in funding from “the Koch brothers, Exxon Mobil, American Petroleum Institute and other covert funders,” as per the Natural History Museum. A statement on the museum website describes the study as “junk science denying man-made climate change” that “failed to disclose any funding-related conflicts of interest.”
With links, and more - https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/david-koch-natural-history-museums-281214
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