Dr. Harold Lewis was a towering figure in physics. He resigned from the APS and detailed his reasons in an important open letter. In his view government research grants corrupted the APS. The environmental community has tried to demonize privately funded research as “corrupt” so that “pristine” government funding has a monopoly on research. In this way, by controlling the government funding, they can dictate outcomes. Thus man-made climate change becomes “fact,” although all data indicates otherwise. In Professor Lewis’s own words:
“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.”