Usted no se lo cree

Texto de referencia:

Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM)

Myanna Lahsen (2005) – Technocracy, Democracy, and U.S. Climate Politics: The Need for Demarcations – Science Technology & Human Values 30:137-169 doi:10.1177/0162243904270710 – Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Epaciais (INPE), Sao José dos Campos, Brazil – http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/resource-1892-2005.50.pdf
“The prestigious sounding institution with which they were affiliated—the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine—was elsewhere revealed to be a one-room operation located on a farm on a rural road in the forested foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains. It consisted only of Arthur B. Robinson, a chemist with a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, and his 21-year-old son, who has no advanced degree (Hill 1998).”

George Monbiot – The denial industry – The Guardian, 19/09/2006 – http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/sep/19/ethicalliving.g2
“Anyone with a degree was entitled to sign it. It was attached to a letter written by Seitz, entitled Research Review of Global Warming Evidence. The lead author of the «review» that followed Seitz’s letter is a Christian fundamentalist called Arthur B. Robinson. He is not a professional climate scientist. It was co-published by Robinson’s organisation – the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine – and an outfit called the George C Marshall Institute, which has received $630,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998. The other authors were Robinson’s 22-year-old son and two employees of the George C Marshall Institute. The chairman of the George C Marshall Institute Institute was Frederick Seitz.”

Oregon Institute of Science and Malarkey – Real Climate, 10/10/2007 – http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/oregon-institute-of-science-and-malarkey/
“A large number of US scientists (to our direct knowledge: engineers, biologists, computer scientists and geologists) received a package in the mail this week. The package consists of a colour preprint of a ‘new’ article by Robinson, Robinson and Soon and an exhortation to sign a petition demanding that the US not sign the Kyoto Protocol. If you get a feeling of deja vu, it is because this comes from our old friends, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine and is an attempt to re-invigorate the highly criticised 1999 ‘Oregon Petition’.”

Bob Unruh – Scientist: ‘Global warming’ scheme to push global tax – World Net Daily, 19/06/2008 – http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=67509&Travis_Hiland
“Blames U.N. for using scare reports, ‘mob rule,’ to bully through agenda … «Science has always progressed on the basis of observations, experiments, and thoughts published by individual scientists and sometimes pairs or small groups of scientific coworkers,» Art Robinson, a research professor of chemistry and co-founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, said in a recent column in Human Events. Except at the U.N., he said. Robinson’s concern over the political manipulation of science earlier led him to launch the Petition Project, a compilation of more than 31,000 scientists – with more names arriving daily – who have voluntarily signed their names to the following statement … “

Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) – Wikipedia, 24/12/2009 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons
“The executive director is Jane Orient, a member of the non-profit Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. AAPS publishes the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. The organization, its members, and the journal have all been the subjects of much criticism from mainstream medical sources.”

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway (2010) – Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming – Bloomsbury New York – Professor of History Science Studies Program University of California; National Aeronautics and Space Administration – ISBN-13 : 978-1408824832 – 368 Págs. http://climatecontroversies.ulb.ac.be/wp-content/uploads/slides/oreskes.pdf
«Acording to his 1997 annual report, [Steven Milloy] began working woth J. Gordon Edwards, an entomologist at San Jose State University, to help him publish an account of the DDT controversy [ref]. Edward’s account finnally aooeared in 2004 in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, publuished by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. This is a Libertarian political group that shares a board member with the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine.» (p. 233)

James Lawrence Powell (2011) – The Inquisition of Climate Science – Columbia University Press – National Science Board – ISBN-13: 978-0231157186 – 240 Págs.
“That same year [1997], Baliunas won the Petr Beckmann Award for her ‘devastating critique of the global warming hoax’ [ref: Sourcewatch]. Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, another admirably named organization, which has close ties with the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, gives the award for ‘courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom,’ Winners of the Beckmann award are a Who’s Who of denial, including Sherwood Idso, Robert Jastrow, Arthur B. Robinson, S. Fred Singer, and Baliunas coauthor, Willie Soon.»

DDP 32nd Annual Meeting – Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, 06/04/2014 – http://www.ddponline.org/2014/04/06/235/
“An American “Reset” on Science and Defense? … Co-sponsored by: Access to Energy; Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine; Physicians for Civil Defense.”

John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends
“The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM), IRS, has about $5M in assets, a website (currently asking for urine samples), a SourceWatch entry. Two of its “faculty” are deceased. The Board consists of Art Robinson, his sons Noah and Zachary, Jane Orientt, and one more person. OISM is famed for the Oregon Petition, an activity that seems far outside its 501(c)(3) charter and whose funding is still unknown, but might well be connected with the George Marshall Institute. Art Robinson (Wikipedia, RationalWiki, SourceWatch) has run for US Representative several times, endorsed by Rand Paul’s father Ron Paul. Rachel Maddow’s 2010 interview may offer some insight into his views.  She followed with a 5-minute version in 2014 covering his 3rd run, and requests for urine samples from Oregonians. George Gilder (Wikipedia, SourceWatch) cofounded the Discovery Instute (Wikipedia, RationalWiki), which hosts the video “The Global Warming Myth – Dr Noah Robinson – Telecosm 2007.”  In the first few minutes, Gilder explained that “Arthur Robinson was the man who first alerted me to the possible flaws in the case for human-caused global warming” and then introduced chemist/veternarian Noah to speak.  In Fantasy Fears, Steve Forbes relied on George’s med student daughter Mary Ellen Tiffany Gilder, with a paper at OISM.”

Graham Readfearn – How Donald Trump Kingmaker-Billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer Have Poured Millions Into Climate Science Denial – Desmogblog, 12/01/2017 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/12/trump-kingmaker-billionaires-robert-rebekah-mercer-pouring-millions-climate-science-denial
“Alongside funding for Breitbart and the Heartland Institute, Robert Mercer has also spent $1.25 million supporting an obscure group known as the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, led by Art Robinson. Robinson was behind a long-debunked “survey” of university graduates, known as the Oregon Petition. First published in 1998, the petition claimed that 30,000 “scientists” had declared humans were not to blame for global warming. Robinson also thinks climate change is a hoax.  His institute sells nuclear survival manuals, is currently stockpiling human urine for testing, and sells home schooling kits for parents worried about their children being exposed to socialism. Robert Mercer also supported Art Robinson’s failed 2010 Republican run for Congress. As well as Robert and his family donating to Robinson’s campaign committee, Robert Mercer personally gave $643,750 to a super-PAC that ran attack ads against Robinson’s Democratic opponent (that opponent, Peter DeFazio, has noted that he had co-sponsored legislation to tax hedge fund transactions).”

Jane Mayer – The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind The Trump Presidency – The New Yorker, 27/03/2017 – http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency
“Press accounts speculated that Robert Mercer may have targeted DeFazio because DeFazio had proposed a tax on a type of high-volume stock trade that Renaissance frequently made. But several associates of Mercer’s say that the truth is stranger. DeFazio’s Republican opponent was Arthur Robinson—the biochemist, sheep rancher, and climate-change denialist. The Mercers became his devoted supporters after reading Access to Energy, an offbeat scientific newsletter that he writes. The family has given at least $1.6 million in donations to Robinson’s Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Some of the money was used to buy freezers in which Robinson is storing some fourteen thousand samples of human urine. Robinson has said that, by studying the urine, he will find new ways of extending the human life span.”

Jane Mayer – The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind The Trump Presidency – The New Yorker, 27/03/2017 – http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency
“Robinson owns a sheep ranch in Cave Junction, Oregon, and on the property he runs a laboratory that he calls the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Mercer helps subsidize Robinson’s various projects, which include an effort to forestall aging.»

Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine – http://www.oism.org
“A large number of US scientists (to our direct knowledge: engineers, biologists, computer scientists and geologists) received a package in the mail this week. The package consists of a colour preprint of a ‘new’ article by Robinson, Robinson and Soon and an exhortation to sign a petition demanding that the US not sign the Kyoto Protocol. If you get a feeling of deja vu, it is because this comes from our old friends, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine and is an attempt to re-invigorate the highly criticised 1999 ‘Oregon Petition’.”

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness – Sourcewatch, 04/06/2020 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors_for_Disaster_Preparedness
“The group is closely affiliated with the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, a politically conservative nonprofit association advocating numerous discredited hypotheses including AIDS denialism.[2] It is run by Arizona physician Jane Orient.[3] According to Bloomberg News, the group was «founded to promote civil defense during the Cold War», and has been «transformed over the years into a forum» on «fringe-science topics» such as global warming denial.[3] DDP was described by The Guardian as a «fringe political group» and as a «truly bizarre lobby group».[2] It promotes the denialist view that man-made global warming is not real or not an important concern … Doctors for Disaster Preparedness share the same address with AAPS.[1][2][4] DDP President Jane Orient is also the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS).[5][6] DDP Vice-President Arthur B. Robinson is also the President of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) … Computer scientist and hedge fund manager Robert Mercer has been a donor to DDP.”