Can Universities Credibly Probe Gas Impacts When Industry Foots the Bill?

Can Universities Credibly Probe Gas Impacts When Industry Foots the Bill? by Andrew C. Revkin with essay by Lisa Wright, July 28, 2012, The New York Times
I’m not a former C.I.A. director, the public editor, a noted academic, journalist, columnist or elected official. Nobody cares about my letters, comments and op-eds on the big issues of conflicts of interest in relation to shale studies and shale science. COI (conflict of interest) is becoming BAU (business as usual) and perhaps ordinary people like me need to come to grips with the reality that in all honesty, as long as the right people are happily lining their pockets, nobody cares.