Malcom writes: > Recently, I received an article on "how carbon dioxide does not contribute > to climate change." The article is clearly misinformation and was > published in a journal called "The Journal of American Physicians and > Surgeons (http://www.jpands.org/)." Most of the article is a fake article > that was circulated back in the 1990's. > EVERYONE NEEDS TO CHECK THIS OUT! > > http://www.jpands.org/vol12no3/robinson.pdf
The authors of this article are associated with the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which has a long history of right-wing scams. The OISM is also intimately associated with the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, a similar right-wing organization located in Tucson that published the article. For more information on the OISM, see: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_Institute_of_Science_and_Medicine An increasing tactic is for large-scale commercial organizations to fund marginal scientists, who increasingly establish their own institutes and now publish in their own journals. This tack allows the lobbyists of the funding commercial interests some level of plausible deniability while showing congressmen "authoritative" research articles, which are then often read into the congressional record by congressmen who are often bought and paid for by the same commercial organizations. The fact that these pseudojournals have no standing, are not subscribed to by standard libraries and are not indexed in any of the standard citation indexes is irrelevant to their primary purpose. Another similar journal is "Energy & Environment." At last count, it was subscribed to by only 26 libraries and not monitored by any of the standard citation indices. Nonetheless, papers appearing in the journal have been read into the Congressional Record several times now. For a general overview of their tactics, see: http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/jul/policy/pt_congress.html Wirt Atmar
