“I would say this boils down to a war between the haves and the have-nots. The haves are the people that are getting all the funding. They're getting millions and millions of dollars of funding. The skeptics, we get scraps, we do things on our own. I funded most of the project on my own. And so who should you trust? People that are being paid for an opinion, paid for an output, versus someone who is not being paid for an output, and I think that's the question.”

— Anthony Watts

Tom Minchin. Anthony Watts interviewed http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2010/06/anthony-watts-interviewed/, Quadrant magazine, June 30, 2010.
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