Someone challenged me and asked “You don’t see any difference between industry funded and government funded?”

The answer is yes and no. Since there’s no need to mention the differences, I’ll just mention the similarity. In each case, the researcher who gets the money is influenced by the wishes of the giver. Just imagine deniers whining, “the government-funded climate researchers…” and you’ll see a tactic they use to discredit the climate researchers. I’m just saying that it works both ways. (Notice how I just tried to discredit deniers by saying that they whine, and by not calling them ‘deniers’ instead of ‘skeptics.’)