From Dr. Hal Lewis's 2010 famous letter exposing Climatgate, "…frequent trips to exotic islands [as] a member of the club."
I thought I would share you anons this little tidbit I found in Dr. Hal Lewis's 2010 famous letter of resignation from the American Physical Society, citing what he saw as "the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it.” Those of you unfamiliar with this letter should know about it because it was an important moment in the History of Science. Some have described his letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door starting the Protestant Reformation. Indeed, Dr. Lewis was a big name in the field of Physics and former chairman of the elite JASON group.
Dr. Lewis only mentions "…frequent trips to exotic islands [as] a member of the club" once in the whole letter but I wonder what else he had knew about it. I recall that one of these top physicist get togethers occurred back in 2005 and was covered in one the Edge magazines. Lawrence Krauss is another sleaze bag cosmology pseudoscientist who despite being married has been accused by several young female graduate students of being sexual assaulted by Krauss.
https://edge.org/conversation/lawrence_m_krauss-the-energy-of-empty-space-that-isnt-zero
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Here are some excerpts from Dr. Lewis's famous letter:
Sent: Friday, 08 October 2010
From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society
Dear Curt:
When I first joined the American Physical Society (APS) sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).
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How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.
It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.
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I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.
I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.
Hal
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/10/16/hal-lewis-my-resignation-from-the-american-physical-society/