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arthur Brouhard Robinson (born March 24, 1942^[1]) is an American biochemist, conservative activist, prominent climate change denier, and politician who served as the Oregon State Senator from the 2nd District from 2021 to 2025. He was the five-time Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's 4th congressional district.

A former faculty member of the University of California, San Diego, Robinson now runs a privately funded laboratory known as the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine in Cave Junction, Oregon,^[2] a newsletter called Access to Energy,^[2] and publishes the Robinson Self-Teaching Home School Curriculum.^[2][3][4][5]

As the Republican nominee for the Fourth District in Oregon, Robinson ran and lost to Democratic incumbent Peter DeFazio in five consecutive elections: 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018.^[6][7][8][9] He served as chairman of the Oregon Republican Party from August 2013^[10] to February 2015.^[11]

Early life and education

Robinson was born in Chicago.^[1] He received a BS in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1963,^[12] and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 1968.^[13] His doctoral thesis was titled, Experiments on the synthesis and spectral characterization of cytochrome-related molecules.^[14]

Scientific career

Early career

Robinson was one of the few students ever to be appointed to the faculty of the University of California, San Diego immediately after getting his Ph.D.,^[5] but resigned four years later.^[13]

He was a co-founder, along with Linus Pauling and Keene Dimick, of the Institute of Orthomolecular Medicine, later renamed the Linus Pauling Institute in 1973.^[15][16]

Linus Pauling Institute

Robinson was the president, director, and a research professor with tenure at the institute.^[17]

In June 1978, Robinson was asked to consult with the Executive Committee of the Linus Pauling Institute regarding important decisions involving the Institute. The members of the Executive Committee included Robinson, Pauling, and Executive Vice President Richard Hicks. The same day Robinson was asked to consult, he (Robinson) dismissed Hicks by terminating the fund raising services agreement employing Hicks, claiming that Hicks had failed to generate the substantial donations expected of him.

Disturbed by Robinson's swift actions against Hicks, Pauling declared that he no longer had "trust and confidence in Robinson",^[18] and asked him to resign immediately. Robinson requested thirty days to consider the resignation and ultimately refused. Pauling called a meeting of the board of trustees regarding Robinson's refusal to resign. The board granted Robinson a leave of absence, and passed all executive authority to Pauling, later electing him president and director of the institute.^[18]

Lawsuit

Robinson responded to the dismissal by charging that he, not Pauling, had done the experimental work at the institute, and that "Linus has not personally contributed significant research work on vitamin C and human health".^[19] Robinson filed a lawsuit against the Institute for $25.5 million, finally settling for $575,000.^[18][20]

Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine

Robinson later moved to Oregon and founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) there in 1980.^[5]

Robinson is the president of the OISM,^[4] which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Cave Junction, Oregon.^[21] The OISM's mission statement and purpose is, "research, development, and public education on the biochemistry of molecular clocks and the degenerative diseases of aging, elementary science education, the effects of environment on health and welfare, and disaster preparedness".^[21] The institute faculty has included Salk Institute biochemist Fred Westall, the late Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Robert Bruce Merrifield, and the late Manhattan Project physicist Martin Kamen.^[22]

:{:{The OISM website states that "several members of the Institute's staff are also well known for their work on the Petition Project" (the Oregon Petition), and that the petition has "more than 31,000" signatures by scientists. Robinson asserted in 2008 that the petition has over 31,000 signatories, with 9,000 of these holding a PhD degree.^[23] }:

Most signatories with a PhD hold their degree in engineering.^[24] The 2009 report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)—a group that "disputes the reality of man-made climate change"^[25]—lists 31,478 degreed signatories, including 9,029 with PhDs.^[26] The list has been criticized for its lack of verification, with pranksters successfully submitting the names of Charles Darwin, a member of the Spice Girls and characters from Star Wars, and getting them briefly included on the list.^[27] A recent revisiting of his report found his chart analysis to be inaccurate when updated with recent years' data.}:

According to Bloomberg.com, starting in about 2013 Robinson began collecting "thousands of vials of human urine" which he claims hold "the key to extending the human life span and wresting control of medicine from what he calls the 'medical-industrial-government complex'." As of early 2016, there were 14,000 urine samples stored in freezers at the OISM lab.^[2] According to Zachary Mider of Bloomberg, it is "hard to judge the credibility" of Robinson's claims. Although Robinson earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in the 1960s, "he hasn't published peer-reviewed research on diagnostic medicine in decades." In reply Robinson stated, "we've completed experiments here, which we could easily publish, but we want to wait until they are perfect."^[2]

In his monthly newsletter "Access to Energy", Robinson has reported on experiments showing that ionizing radiation can be good for you, advocates for a revival of cheap nuclear power, attacks climate science as a "false religion" that will enslave mankind, and condemns public education, instead favoring home schooling.^[2] "Access to Energy" was originated by Petr Beckmann; Robinson began writing it with the September 1993 issue.

OISM also publishes material relating to civil defense and disaster preparedness.^[22][28]

Political career

2010 congressional election

In May 2010, Robinson won the Republican primary for Oregon's 4th congressional district, taking 79% of the vote to businesswoman Jaynee Germond's 20%. He faced Democratic incumbent Peter DeFazio in the November 2010 general election.^[6] Six weeks before the election, $600,000 worth of TV advertisements started to appear in the district, portraying his opponent as "a puppet of the Democratic leadership". It was later revealed that the advertisements, reportedly a surprise to Robinson, were paid for by conservative billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.^[2] (Mercer provided "six-figure financial support" to Robinson again in 2012 and 2014.)^[2] Robinson was defeated by 145,091 votes (53.6%) to 120,307 (44.5%) but it was the "best performance" by a Republican in the district "in decades".^[2] Robinson vowed to try again in 2012.^[29]

2012 congressional election

Robinson, running unopposed, became the Republican nominee for Oregon's 4th congressional district, to again face incumbent DeFazio, who had defeated Robinson's son Matthew in a landslide in the Democratic primary.^[30] In the general election, DeFazio defeated Robinson by 212,866 votes (59.1%) to 140,549 (39%).

2014 congressional election

Robinson ran for a third time for Oregon's 4th congressional district in 2014. He was unopposed in the Republican primary and faced another rematch in the general election with DeFazio, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Robinson lost the election with 116,534 votes to DeFazio's 181,624.^[7]

2016 congressional election

Robinson in 2016

Robinson ran for a fourth time for Oregon's 4th congressional district in 2016. He ran against Jo Rae Perkins, a former Linn County Republican party chairwoman, in the primary election and won with 67 percent of the vote. In the general election on November 8. Robinson once again faced DeFazio, who won his primary election with 93 percent of the vote. DeFazio prevailed once more, 55%-40%.^[8]

2018 congressional election

Robinson challenged DeFazio for a fifth time in Oregon's 4th congressional district. He faced four primary challengers this time, Perkins, again, plus former Eugene mayoral candidate Stefan Strek, Curry County Commissioner Court Boice, and Michael Polen. Robinson won the nomination with 45.7% of the vote.^[31] DeFazio defeated Robinson 56%-41%.

2020 State senate election

Robinson filed to run once again against DeFazio but dropped out on the final day of the registration period to run for Oregon State Senate District 2, instead, to replace retiring Republican incumbent Herman Baertschiger Jr.^[32] Robinson defeated his Democratic challenger, Jerry Allen, with 64.01% to 33.52%.

Political positions

In addition to asserting that global warming is a hoax, Robinson opposes abortion and supports gun rights,^[1] cutting taxes, increasing border security and building new power plants.^[1] He argues for balancing the federal budget, defunding earmarks and ending special-interest influence in Washington.^[1] He also supports ending the Federal Reserve System. Robinson is against bailouts to Wall Street banks.[citation ^needed] He also supports a strong national defense, but with a more restrained foreign policy.^[33] Robinson is a signatory to A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism, a petition circulated by the Discovery Institute to promote the pseudoscientific intelligent design theory.^[34]

Oregon State University controversy

In 2011, Robinson alleged that Oregon State University (OSU) was part of a conspiracy to retaliate against him for his political activism by expelling his three children, all of whom were graduate students there.^[35] When asked what proof he has of the university discriminating against his children, Robinson stated, "I don't have definitive proof, [...] That is what I believe. Basically, I know what happened. I cannot tell you the motives of the people doing it."^[36] In a statement, OSU would not comment on matters concerning the students without their consent, but declared all the other claims, including those about the faculty, to be unfounded.^[35][37]

2023 unexcused absences

While participating in a Republican-led walkout in May 2023 Robinson reached the 10 unexcused absence threshold set by measure 113, disqualifying him from running for reelection after his current term ends.^[38] In October the Oregon Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the measure.^[39] On February 1, 2024, the Court unanimously ruled against the Republican Senators, confirming Robinson's disqualification after the end of his term in January 2025.^[40] Robinson was succeeded in the Senate by his son, Noah Robinson.^[41]

Personal life

Robinson is a non-denominational Christian and lives in Cave Junction, Oregon.^[5] He was married to Laurelee Robinson until her death in 1988.^[1] His six children were all home schooled.^[5] As a hobby, Robinson buys unwanted pipe organs from churches and reassembles them on his property.^[2] Among the instruments in his collection is the organ formerly owned by famed Christian Gospel singer George Beverly Shea.

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DESMOG MURRAY

February 17, 2017

Speaking withCNBC (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/17/murray-energy-ceo-claims-global-warming-is-a-hoax.html), Murray claimed that global warming was a hoax citing “4,000 scientists.”88

“There’s no scientific analysis either,” Murray said. “I have 4,000 scientists that tell me global warming is a hoax. The Earth has cooled for 20 years.”89

When asked for clarification, a spokesperson for Murray Energy sent links to the Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change, which says “human-caused climate change is not a global crisis,” and the infamous Global Warming Petition Project, also known as the Oregon Petition (https://www.desmog.com/oregon-petition), a debunked list (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/the-30000-global-warming_b_243092.html) of those who claim humans don’t cause climate change.90

TheManhattan Declaration (http://www.climatescienceinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=37&Itemid=54) is a document devised by theInternational Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) (https://www.desmog.com/international-climate-science-coalition) and unveiled at thefossil fuel industry-funded Heartland Institute’s (https://www.desmog.com/heartland-institute) 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. ICSC is run by Tom Harris (https://www.desmog.com/tom-harris) who formerly worked for a PR company called the High Park Group. ICSC also receives funding from the Heartland Institute, which has been at the forefront of climate change denial.91

As Tom DiChristopher noted at CNBC, “Murray’s claim that there is no scientific analysis behind climate change is not true. […] His second claim that Earth is cooling is also false.”92

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...The story has been often told of how, 11 years ago, Art's children "decided to clone their study system" by scanning their books and study materials onto 22 CD-ROMs. This became the famous Robinson Curriculum, which has now been used by more than 70,000 students, "an estimated 3 percent of all homeschooled students in the United States." (They also have since added CD-ROMs of out-of-print Henty books and newer products for teaching spelling and vocabulary.) What you might not know is that Art launched the first serious blow to the "deadly man-made global warming" crowd. In 1998, covering the first Kyoto meeting, the Wall Street Journal asked Art to write an editorial, which he did with the help of his son, Zachary.

The response from those with a vested interest in the global warming scenario was vicious. "We realized their program had only three elements," Art says. "First, all scientists agreed with them. Second, they were trying to save the planet. Third, anyone who disagreed was just trying to make money. So we decided to show there wasn't a scientific consensus."

First, Zach, two astrophysics students from Harvard, and the famous physicist Frederick Seitz wrote an article reviewing all the relevant atmospheric literature. Then the Robinsons started sending out petition requests, asking those in the scientific community who were not convinced of the man-made global warming scenario to stand up and be counted. (At http://www.petitionproject.org/ you can see the review article, petition, and list of over 30,000 signers.)

In spite of the furor it has created, the petition project was only a sideline for Robinson, His major interest is research into the biochemical "clocks" that are built into proteins, attempting to find the cause of aging. "In the last 7 or 8 years with Noah, Zachary, and the other children working on it, we've made a lot more progress," Art says. His proudest moment: co-authoring a scientific paper with all six children that was published in the Journal of Peptide Research.

Art also is the moving spirit behind Access to Energy, a newsletter founded by the late Czech refugee (and electrical engineering professor) Petr Beckmann. Originally intended for a scientific readership, in later years it also adopted an "explaining science to the layman" focus. Now about ? of the readership is scientists and 2/3 is laymen. Donations from a yearly appeal to the subscriber list allow OISM's work to continue without government or "big business" support.

Now, the big question. How have the Robinson children turned out?

"I'm not trying to suggest we're perfect," says Art, "but so far the six Robinson children have managed to remain solid Christian young people who are academically successful." That is a really big understatement. Consider this list of academic achievement:

Zachary, age 31, holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Oregon State University and a M.S. in Chemistry and D.V.M. (doctorate in veterinary medicine) from Iowa State University (ISU). He currently works part-time on OISM research as well as in veterinarian practice.

Noah, age 29, holds a BS in Chemistry from Southern Oregon University (SOU) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Caltech. He is employed full-time by OISM.

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for the first time, a gas utility could be on the hook for its role in deceiving the public about the climate crisis. Multnomah, Oregon, has added NW Natural — Oregon’s oldest and largest supplier of “natural” gas, also known as fossil or methane gas — to the list of defendants in a lawsuit (https://substack.com/redirect/5dad5833-36fb-46dd-89e1-50e0d131a79d?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) that seeks to make fossil fuel companies pay $52 billion for their role in the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat dome.

NW Natural “has routinely misrepresented” the climate harms of gas while undermining the energy transition “in an effort to frighten customers and discourage policy makers from using their authority to protect the public,” according to the county’s amended complaint (https://substack.com/redirect/6ad36f62-e54a-4b8b-99b8-6c77603eda7d?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw). The company has portrayed gas as “safe, clean, and environmentally friendly,” despite the fact that methane, its primary component, is 80 times more potent (https://substack.com/redirect/86ca7c04-538f-4566-9a0c-eb589b93ee76?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

In its original complaint, Oregon’s most populous county argued that oil and gas companies’ decades-long climate deception helped lead to the heat dome that killed 69 people in Multnomah — an event scientists said would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change. The 2023 lawsuit seeks to recover costs incurred from other extreme weather events and make Exxon, Chevron, McKinsey, and other defendants pay for a range of adaptation measures to protect residents from future ones. The updated complaint now adds that NW Natural “engaged in an enterprise of misrepresentation about the effects its products would have on the climate, and that the use of its products could cause an extreme heat event to occur.”

That enterprise has reportedly ramped up in recent years as the company fights a growing push for policies to limit emissions and phase out their product. The utility has run advertising campaigns touting “renewable natural gas,” targeted children through school books depicting gas as safe and clean, and created front groups posing as local grassroots advocates to fight electrification and promote “consumer choice,” according to evidence cited by the complaint and further detailed in additional reporting, investigations, and challenges to state regulators.

“As we learned in this country when we took on big tobacco, this is not an easy step or one I take lightly but I do believe it’s our best way to fight for our community and protect our future,” Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson said in a press release.

Like many fossil fuel and petrochemical companies (https://substack.com/redirect/506e6a9b-b4c6-4208-a25b-891991bc851a?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw), NW Natural sponsors sporting events, concerts, and small nonprofits in the region reliant on external funding. The utility’s embedded presence in the community makes it all the more important for the county to “highlight the insidious nature of their communications,” said Carra Sahler, a Multnomah County resident and Director and Staff Attorney at the Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School, which has represented advocacy groups in cases (https://substack.com/redirect/fd3f54e2-722c-4db8-a39e-ea6b21dfd4b7?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) against NW Natural for customer rate hikes.

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“People want to trust that their utility is doing the right thing, that the utility is providing the information necessary for them to make choices about their energy use,” Sahler said. “It feels like we’ve crossed into a new era where there is no way forward but to stop [NW Natural] from spreading misinformation.”

“Renewable natural gas”

On a “low carbon energy future” page on its website (https://substack.com/redirect/164ac0c5-5186-40df-b063-6daa5872d11b?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw), NW Natural claims it “has an important role to play in helping our region move to a lower-carbon, renewable energy future in a more resilient and affordable way.” The company goes on to boast its investments in so-called “renewable natural gas,” or gas acquired from decomposing organic matter at livestock operations and landfills.

For years, the utility has used customers’ money (https://substack.com/redirect/e3038e3f-9757-42af-9625-0f33a154e68e?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) to fund ad campaigns promoting “renewable natural gas,” blasting out the slogan “Less We Can (https://substack.com/redirect/ea171eea-4357-4129-8f66-7538d3bf3590?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw),” and insinuating that the company is already providing the “renewable” energy source to Oregon homes. The utility calls RNG a “carbon neutral resource (https://substack.com/redirect/8e3d3f3e-ccc1-468a-a87c-4e4e6af2885e?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw),” but its own filings with Oregon regulators show that’s not true: two of its extraction sites at Tyson slaughterhouses in Nebraska, for example, have a climate footprint (https://substack.com/redirect/6a92e9a4-95cc-4bc9-8ea6-44e295b876a8?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw).

The company also appears to overstate its use of RNG in its operations. At the Tyson slaughterhouses, the Nebraska-sourced gas is piped mainly to Nebraska customers rather than Oregonians, ProPublica reporters found (https://substack.com/redirect/6a92e9a4-95cc-4bc9-8ea6-44e295b876a8?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw). And according to the company’s reports (https://substack.com/redirect/67d0e20c-b934-49e3-8bfa-4a7c9684d974?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw), RNG makes up less than 1% of the total gas acquired by NW Natural — a statistic the company blames (https://substack.com/redirect/8e3d3f3e-ccc1-468a-a87c-4e4e6af2885e?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) on “uncertain support from policy makers and regulators, coupled with ongoing barriers created by certain climate advocates.”

According to ads and internal powerpoints scrutinized by DeSmog (https://substack.com/redirect/e3038e3f-9757-42af-9625-0f33a154e68e?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) and documents revealed by ProPublica (https://substack.com/redirect/6a92e9a4-95cc-4bc9-8ea6-44e295b876a8?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw), the RNG ad campaigns were part of a strategy to beat back the growing “anti-fossil fuel chorus.” That strategy also involved convincing the state legislature to greenlight a state-produced inventory of Oregon’s “technical potential” for “RNG,” and using the highest possible estimates — the amount of RNG Oregon could produce if it had unlimited money — to successfully lobby for another bill to make ratepayers cover the added costs of the biogas, and establish voluntary goals for its use, which the utility would then use to battle regulation.

Targeting schools

NW Natural’s campaign to “promote the continued use and consumption of fossil fuel gas by influencing public opinion” also “targets the next generation through children,” according to Multnomah’s complaint, which cites “gas-related” activity workbooks (https://substack.com/redirect/e15b53f4-3141-4ee4-a6b2-4bfe87fa281d?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) sent by NW Natural to schools. The books, which target children as young as kindergartners, use puzzles, word games, cartoons, and other activities depicting fossil gas as safe, clean, and beneficial for society, reporting from DeSmog (https://substack.com/redirect/e15b53f4-3141-4ee4-a6b2-4bfe87fa281d?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) found.

Screenshot from formal testimony (https://substack.com/redirect/f494acdf-f0d9-418e-a9b3-22fc40151270?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) to the PUC on April 22, 2022, cited in Multnomah’s complaint.

A group funded by the utility, called Bonneville Environmental Foundation, also planned an event for teachers — which was ultimately canceled after students planned to protest (https://substack.com/redirect/1df2eb7e-019f-48a3-a852-e9127e9dcbb0?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw)— called “Clean Energy Teacher Training: Exploring Renewable Gas.” The utility promised each teacher who attended the session in Portland a $200 stipend, plus reimbursement for mileage if they traveled more than 50 miles.

In 2022, a coalition of nonprofits and state representatives sent a letter calling on Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to investigate (https://substack.com/redirect/403324d7-500b-4c0c-b207-a449c5818884?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) the utility’s “misleading advertising,” stating that “it is particularly concerning that school children are being subjected to misinformation from corporate entities of any kind, but especially by a fossil fuel corporation selling a product that is harmful to children’s health.” In 2023, the group once again (https://substack.com/redirect/ff6fb9bc-a5c3-48a1-a6c9-bd6e52fc6bd7?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) called on the AG to “investigate and sue NW Natural if appropriate.”

In response to concerns raised by a coalition of local environmental and consumer advocates, the state Public Utility Commission ruled (https://substack.com/redirect/2404677d-fd4e-4333-b2c8-f03720599402?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) in April that NW Natural can no longer charge ratepayers for pro-gas advertising targeting schoolchildren.

Battling climate action

NW Natural hasn’t just advertised fossil gas as a cleaner, “renewable” fuel — it has also fought policies to reduce emissions and shift toward electrification. Reports show the utility hired a scientist (https://substack.com/redirect/664416b3-3473-4aa9-9049-8b21dbf99136?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) to oppose bans on gas in new construction, worked with a public relations firm (https://substack.com/redirect/6a92e9a4-95cc-4bc9-8ea6-44e295b876a8?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) and its front group (https://substack.com/redirect/f99d05b9-639d-44ab-a5c4-8bc60dcaad9a?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) to “defeat policies detrimental to the natural gas industry,” and sued (https://substack.com/redirect/7aaecfc6-354e-4850-8d0f-64d3d560e4c8?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) the Oregon Environmental Quality Commission over the state’s landmark Climate Protection Program that aimed to reduce emissions.

The company even posed as a local grassroots group to oppose a partial ban on new natural gas construction by Eugene’s City Council in 2023. Just days after the ban was passed, “Eugene Residents for Energy Choice” was registered with the Oregon Secretary of State. Funded by NW Natural (https://substack.com/redirect/ddb4974d-86b5-43ee-a26a-e30b61396917?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) to the tune of nearly $950,000 in a span of two weeks, the group collected signatures to revoke the ban — which was ultimately repealed by the city council.

Recently, state regulators accused NW Natural of misleading consumers (https://substack.com/redirect/26a05a52-a9ea-4ad7-ad70-ff6bbc554bb5?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) about Oregon’s carbon crediting program after the utility claimed in a newsletter that the program would raise rates without reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

NW Natural’s actions are part of a much larger push by the gas industry to fight regulations, including longstanding campaigns (https://substack.com/redirect/da5339b2-5626-4790-87b9-7ee7d7332ba1?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) by the American Gas Association — an industry trade group of which it is a member, and where its CEO, David Anderson, [sits on the board]

https://substack.com/redirect/29c56708-84aa-4364-b1fc-3a6c46f36cba?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw

. As more communities pass laws to tighten standards for appliances and limit new construction of gas pipelines to homes and businesses, the group’s campaigns to counter scientific evidence (https://substack.com/redirect/da5339b2-5626-4790-87b9-7ee7d7332ba1?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) that using gas stoves is harmful to human health have resurfaced (https://substack.com/redirect/84e5e316-6415-4943-8e1a-30fe141bd513?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw).

Another new defendant

Multnomah County’s amended complaint adds one more new defendant to the case: the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (https://substack.com/redirect/e680b52e-7c81-48e0-b0d6-42b39dbf0756?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw). The nonprofit ran the 1998 “Oregon Petition (https://substack.com/redirect/4e9586df-c265-416e-824c-f63c1cc2101c?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw),” which claimed to capture signatures from 17,000 scientists who agreed there was “no convincing scientific evidence that human release of greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate.”

In reality, the petition was not signed by 17,000 scientists, but included fictitious names, deceased persons, and celebrities, according to the complaint. The project was designed to look as though (https://substack.com/redirect/e5c9aaa1-9fa2-4187-a6cf-912b794e7766?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) it was approved by the National Academy of Scientists, but was actually authored by Fred Seitz (https://substack.com/redirect/128327a3-7995-4684-9a12-aaa3bb8f6748?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw), cofounder of the Exxon-backed think tank GMI (https://substack.com/redirect/8b787c05-5c4d-4558-b58d-6b6f66ba61fd?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw).

“A signal to the gas industry”

In June, the county won a procedural victory when a federal courtruled (https://substack.com/redirect/9f63a66c-285f-4928-8c23-f7a79e64ce7a?j=eyJ1IjoiN3ltancifQ.i0HJl3aVWG8sHp566T-pebMssFGKcgvxVOFLuZyEDpw) that its lawsuit could move forward in state court.

Pat Parenteau, an environmental law professor and senior fellow at Vermont Law School, said the evidence of the utility’s deception cited in the complaint fell short of the “massive” amount of evidence plaintiffs have cited against oil companies. Further evidence of NW Natural’s deception could expand through the course of discovery and additional reporting, he added.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, agreed that gas utilities’ “histories of climate deception have not been as thoroughly mined as those of the oil companies,” but noted that additional evidence could land more utilities in court for climate deception.

“It does send a signal to the gas industry that these sorts of plaintiffs are looking at them more closely than they have in the past,” Gerrard said.

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multnomah complaint

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Defendant, Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (“OISM”) is a privately owned entity incorporated and registered to do business in Oregon since 1981 with its principal place of business and headquarters in Cave Junction, Oregon. 183.

Arthur B. Robinson is listed as OISM’s CEO and has designated the entity’s purpose is for research and education. Instead of providing an education, OISM, which is responsible for the Petition Project created a misinformation and deception campaign that is known as the “Oregon

...

OISM published a paper that suggests that it analyzes the “Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.”108 The article is replete with disinformation, including the conclusion that states unequivocally, “[t]here are no experimental data to support the hypothesis that increases in human hydrocarbon use or in atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are causing or can be expected to cause unfavorable changes in global temperatures, weather, or landscape.

There is no reason to limit human production of CO2, CH4, and other minor greenhouse gases as has been proposed (82,83,97,123). We also need not worry about environmental calamities even if the current natural warming trend continues. The Earth has been much warmer during the past 3,000 years without catastrophic effects. Warmer weather extends growing seasons and generally improves the habitability of colder regions.”109 187.

OISM has conducted substantial business activities in Oregon and purposefully availed itself of the rights, obligations, and privileges of the laws of Oregon. 188.

OISM has engaged in a climate deception/misinformation campaign in Oregon to continue to further the business objectives of its carbon polluting funders. OISM’s concealment and

...

OISM has coordinated and participated in a deliberate misinformation and concealment campaign to downplay and/or deny the harms from the use of its fossil fuel funders’—including Defendants—and the industry’s products leading to an increase in the demand and consumption, and extreme weather events like those that have harmed the County.

OISM’s deception is individually and collectively (with the other Defendants) a cause of enormous harm to the Plaintiff for which this Defendant is individually and jointly and severally liable to Plaintiff. 5.

no relation?

178 E. Robinson & R.C. Robbins, Final Report, Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous. Atmospheric Pollutants, SRI Project PR-6755, prepared for American Petroleum Institute, at 109- 110.

179 E. Robinson & R.C. Robbins, Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Pollutants Supplement, Stanford Research Institute (June 1969).

180 NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Global Mean CO2 Mixing Ratios (ppm): Observations, NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES, https://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/ghgases/Fig1A.ext.txt (last visited June 20, 2023).

181 Elmer Robinson and R.C. Robbins, Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Pollutants Supplement, STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Jun. 1969), http://chr.gov.ph/wpcontent/uploads/2019/11/Exhibit-3I-Sources-Abundance-and-Fate-of-Gaseous-AtmosphericPollutants-Supplement.pdf (last visited June 20, 2023)

...

Elmer Robinson (October 3, 1924 - April 24, 2016) was an American atmospheric scientist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_scientist). He was one of the first scientists to recognise climate-change risks in fossil fuel burning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_burning), co-authoring, with R C Robbins, another Stanford Research Institute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International) (SRI) researcher, reports warning the industry in 1968 and 1969.

Early life

Robinson was born in Los Angeles, California, to Homer Henry Robinson and Mary Luella White. He attended Hoover High School in Glendale and went on to take BS and MS degrees at University of California, Los Angeles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Los_Angeles) (UCLA).[1]

Career

Robinson joined SRI as a climate researcher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatology) in 1947 and continued on there until taking up a professorship at Washington State University in 1972 where he remained until 1985. In his capacity as leading environmental scientist at SRI in 1968, his report on global warming entitled Sources, abundance, and fate of gaseous atmospheric pollutants[2] was presented to the American Petroleum Institute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Petroleum_Institute) (API).[3] In the report, he warned that rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere "may be the cause of serious world-wide environmental changes",[4] a warning elaborated on in a 1969 supplement to the report.[5]

Also while at SRI, Robinson carried out ice-core studies of historical atmospheric CO2 concentrations on cores taken in Greenland and surveyed the ozone layer depletion over Antarctica.[1]

He was director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Oceanic_and_Atmospheric_Administration)'s Mauna Loa Research Observatory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa_Observatory) in Hawaii from 1985 to 1996,[1] a role in which he was interviewed for National Geographic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic) in 1987.[6]

References

^ Jump up to:a (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Robinson%28meteorologist%29#cite_ref-Ashland_1-0) ^b (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Robinson%28meteorologist%29#cite_ref-Ashland_1-1) ^c (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Robinson_%28meteorologist%29#cite_ref-Ashland_1-2) "Elmer Robinson" (http://www.dailytidings.com/article/20160507/OBITUARIES/160509846). Ashland Daily Tidings. 7 May 2016. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Robinson%28meteorologist%29#cite_ref-2) Robinson, E.; Robbins, R. C. (January 1968). Sources, abundance, and fate of gaseous atmospheric pollutants. Final report and supplement. US Department of Energy. OSTI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSTI%28identifier%29) 6852325 (https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6852325).
^ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Robinson_%28meteorologist%29#cite_ref-3) Wiles, Richard (15 March 2018). "It's 50 years since climate change was first seen. Now time is running out" (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/15/50-years-climate-change-denial). The Guardian. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Robinson_%28meteorologist%29#cite_ref-4) Smith, Matt (15 April 2016). "The Oil Industry Was Warned About Climate Change in 1968" (https://news.vice.com/article/the-oil-industry-was-warned-about-climate-change-in-1968). Vice News. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Robinson%28meteorologist%29#cite_ref-5) Robinson, Elmer; Robbins, R. C. Robbins (1969). Sources, Abundance, and Fate of Gaseous Atmospheric Pollutants: Supplement. OSTI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSTI%28identifier%29) 6852325 (https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6852325).
^ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_Robinson_%28meteorologist%29#cite_ref-6) Noel Grove, 'Air: An Atmosphere of Uncertainty (https://www.geocities.ws/jayedelman/ng-air.html)', National Geographic (April 1987).

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award

Climate Change Awards – Arthur Robinson, Ph.D. (https://climatechangeawards.org/arthur-robinson-ph-d/)

2014 Winner of the Voice of Reason Award

Dr. Arthur Robinson, is a distinguished chemist, cofounder of theOregon Institute of Science and Medicine (http://www.oism.org/%29) (OISM), and editor of the influential newsletter Access to Energy. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at San Diego.

In 2014, Dr. Robinson received the Voice of Reason Award and a cash stipend from The Heartland Institute (http://www.heartland.org/). The award was presented in Las Vegas at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change on July 7-9. VID]

IFrame Content (https://youtu.be/gFe-0cR8S4A)

Beginning in 1997, Dr. Robinson, along with his son Noah, Dr. Frederick Seitz, Dr. Sallie Baliunas, Dr. Willie Soon, and others, organized the Petition Project, a statement firmly rejecting global warming alarmism eventually signed by more than 31,000 U.S. scientists.

Dr. Robinson updated and re-issued the petition in 2007 and continues to maintain it as the world’s largest directory of scientists who reject global warming alarmism.

The Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, founded in 1981, is a non-profit research institute devoted to conducting basic and applied research in subjects immediately applicable to increasing the quality, quantity, and length of human life. Research in the institute’s laboratories includes work in protein biochemistry, diagnostic medicine, nutrition, preventive medicine, and aging. The institute also carries out work on the improvement of basic education and emergency preparedness. The institute is entirely supported by donations and grants from private individuals and foundations and by the independent earnings and resources of its faculty and volunteers. It does not solicit or accept tax-financed government funds. For more information about OISM, go to www.oism.org (http://www.oism.org/).

Dr. Robinson also writes and edits Access to Energy, a newsletter that discusses scientific issues of special importance to the public interest. The text is written in layman’s terms and includes references to the scientific literature in support of the conclusions reached. Access to Energywas founded by Petr Beckmann in 1973 and published by him until his death in 1993. Dr. Robinson says of his readers and editorial philosophy, “We don’t ask them to trust and parrot us, we ask them to think.” For more information, go to www.accesstoenergy.com (http://www.accesstoenergy.com/).

Dr. Robinson served as a faculty member of University of California at San Diego until co‑founding the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine with Linus Pauling in 1973. Beginning with their initial work together on general anesthesia and the structure of water at Caltech in 1961, Pauling and Robinson carried out published research on a wide variety of topics from nuclear physics to nutrition until 1978. They ceased work together in 1978 because of a disagreement between them on the effects of ascorbic acid on the growth rate of cancer in mice.

...various congrats pix w soon...

jim lakely

For awards with cash stipends, we ask for a minimum stipend of $5,000. Thus, the sponsor of a one-time award would pay The Heartland Institute a fee of $1,000 plus $5,000 for the stipend, for a total of $6,000. If the award is to be an annual award, we expect a minimum commitment of four years at $6,000, for a total of $24,000.

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RATIONALWIKI

Arthur Brouhard Robinson (1942-) is a former chemist and current crank (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank), woo (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Woo)-meister, and fringe political figure (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wingnut). Robinson was a professor of chemistry (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chemistry) at the University of California (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/California)-San Diego until 1972, when he resigned. In 1980, he created the Oregon (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Oregon) Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM). In 1997, he co-authored the brochure that accompanied the Oregon Petition (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition) with his son and Willie Soon (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Willie_Soon).[2]

Contents

1Pseudoscience career (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#Pseudoscience_career)

2Political career (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#Political_career)

3Oregon State incident (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#Oregon_State_incident)

4See also (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#See_also)

5External links (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#External_links)

6References (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#References)

Pseudoscience career

Robinson's first venture into pseudoscience came during his partnership with Linus Pauling (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling) during Pauling's Vitamin C (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Vitamin_C) quackery (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quackery) days. He and Pauling founded the Linus Pauling Institute for Science and Medicine in order to promulgate orthomolecular medicine (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Orthomolecular_medicine).[3] Pauling's political views as a hardcore leftist (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Leftist) and peacenik (he had won the Nobel Peace Prize (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize) in 1963) rubbed many of his colleagues the wrong way and Robinson happened to be a staunch conservative (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservative) wingnut (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Wingnut). Robinson also challenged Pauling's views on Vitamin C. The two had a falling out and Robinson went on to found OISM to further promote his own brands of quackery.

Robinson has a deep history of working with various luminaries in the field of pseudoscience. Fun facts about Art:

He is the head editor for the newsletter Access to Energy, a position which he took over at the request of its founder Petr Beckmann (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Petr_Beckmann). The newsletter promotes nuclear power (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nuclear_power) (stopped clock (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Stopped_clock) here, but his views on nuclear waste (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nuclear_waste) stray into crank territory), anti-environmentalism (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Anti-environmentalism), global warming (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Global_warming) denialism (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Denialism), and AIDS denialism (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AIDS_denialism) (yes, he recycles Peter Duesberg (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Peter_Duesberg)'s arguments, of course).

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Doctors_for_Disaster_Preparedness) is affiliated with the OISM.

He co-authored the book Fighting Chance: Ten Feet To Survival with Gary North (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gary_North), a survivalist (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Survivalist) tract promoting the return of duck-and-cover (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Duck_and_Cover) drills and offering advice on surviving nuclear war (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nuclear_war). You can also buy CD courses from his website on how to prepare for the coming commie (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Communist) takeover and nuclear holocaust.[4]

He is a signatory to the Discovery Institute (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Discovery_Institute)'s A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/A_Scientific_Dissent_From_Darwinism) petition promoting creationism (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Creationism).

The OISM is also a major proponent of global warming denialism (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Global_warming_denialism) and was responsible for the Oregon Petition (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Oregon_Petition), which Frederick Seitz (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Frederick_Seitz) assisted in distributing. The institute has published research by noted deniers Willie Soon (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Willie_Soon) and Sallie Baliunas (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Sallie_Baliunas).

He offers his own brand of homeschooling (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Homeschool) curriculum for sale.

He wants your pee![5]

Political career

Robinson ran on the Republican (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Republican) ticket against incumbent Peter DeFazio for a seat in the House of Representatives in Oregon's fourth district. He had an infamous melt-down incident in an interview with Rachel Maddow (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rachel_Maddow), where he accused Maddow of smearing him by quoting his own writing from Access to Energy and gibbered incomprehensibly.[6] Robinson's writings have a number of Dominionist (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dominionist) themes in them (he did write a book with Gary North) and he implies that homosexuality (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Homosexuality) is the cause of AIDS in his AIDS denial articles. He supports removing all taxes (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Taxes) on energy and abolishing the public school (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Public_school) system. His homeschooling curriculum uses the books of G.A. Henty, which promote themes of British (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/British) imperialism (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Imperialism) and racism (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Racism).

Robinson had the Ron Paul (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ron_Paul) Stamp of ApprovalTM. He lost to DeFazio but still managed to get 45% of the electorate, thus reaffirming the crazification factor (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crazification_factor).

Besides his love of radioactive waste, Robinson has said a number of other batshit things on environmental issues, too many to count. His solution to all waste materials? Dump it in the ocean!

Wastes dumped into the deep ocean will soon reach the bottom, where they are less hazardous than nearly any other place on Earth. Most materials will remain there: marine organisms are rare in the deep ocean, food chains are long, and few materials will be carried back to mankind. And that is what waste disposal is all about.[7]

Robinson ran for Oregon State Senate in District Two to replace Republican incumbent Herman Baertschiger in 2020, defeating Democrat challenger Jerry Allen with 64.0% of the electorate.[8]

Oregon State incident

In 2011, Robinson claimed a political conspiracy to block his three children attending Oregon State University from getting their doctorates. He set up a site called Oregon State Outrage and he's been cross-posting at WorldNutDaily (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/WorldNutDaily) trying to get people to spam the deans of the university. OSU has declared that Robinson is full of it.[9]

See also

Crank magnetism (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crank_magnetism)

Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Doctors_for_Disaster_Preparedness)

Radiation hormesis (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis)

External links

OISM homepage (http://www.oism.org/)

Access to Energy newsletter (http://www.accesstoenergy.com/)

Art Robinson for Congress (http://www.artrobinsonforcongress.com/), his campaign site.

The Robinson Self-Teaching Curriculum (http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/), his homeschooling site.

Oregon State Outrage (http://www.oregonstateoutrage.com/)

Arthur Robinson profile (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/link/213602_Presenting_the_GOPs_newest_star-_Arthur_Robinson) on Little Green Footballs

A Scientist Finds Independence (http://www.independentscientist.com/), Tom Bethell (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Tom_Bethell) in American Spectator

Wingnut is as wingnut does (http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2010/08/12/coverstory.html), Eugene Weekly

Durango Bill's OISM profile (http://www.durangobill.com/GwdLiars/OregonInstituteOfScienceAndMedicine.html)

Cargo Cults in Global Warming, and Arthur Robinson (http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/cargo-cults-in-global-warming-and-arthur-robinson/), Ed Darrell

Art Robinson Sells Books Comparing Africans to Retarded Children (http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/06/30/art-robinson-oregon-gop-candidate-for-congress-sells-book-comparing-africans-to-retarded-children/), AlterNet

Oregon Institute of Science and Malarkey (http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/10/oregon-institute-of-science-and-malarkey/), Real Climate

Rabett Run: Gift for John H. (http://rabett.blogspot.com/2006/12/gift-for-john-h.html), Rabett Power (http://rabett.blogspot.com/2008/06/rabett-power-recently-john-quiggin-and.html), Critical Review of Robinson, Robinson, and Soon (http://rabett.blogspot.com/2009/10/critical-review-of-robinson-robinson.html)

The Grandfather Of Alt-Science: Art Robinson has seeded scientific skepticism within the GOP for decades. Now he wants to use urine to save lives. (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-grandfather-of-alt-science/) by Daniel Engber (2017)

References

↑ (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#cite_ref-1) Science vs. Scientists (http://web.archive.org/web/20120121012549/http://www.accesstoenergy.com/view/atearchive/s76a2275.htm), Access to Energy, 1997, Vol. 24, No. 8
↑ (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#cite_ref-2) http://www.petitionproject.org/gw_article/GWReview_OISM150.pdf (http://www.petitionproject.org/gw_article/GWReview_OISM150.pdf)
↑ (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#cite_ref-3) Whither the Pauling Legacy? (http://www.orthomolecular.org/library/jom/2001/articles/2001-v16n03-p137.shtml), OISM newsletter
↑ (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#cite_ref-4) He offers a free copy online here (warning, it's DjVu). (http://www.homelandcivildefense.org/s141p1461.htm)
↑ (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#cite_ref-5) http://on.msnbc.com/1ubyxdV
↑ (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#cite_ref-6) Robinson on Maddow (http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/10/07/5254452-if-it-were-possible-to-smear-a-person-by-quoting-to-him-things-that-he-has-published-in-his-own-newsletter), Oct. 7 2010.
↑ (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#cite_ref-7) Ocean Dumping? Yes! (http://web.archive.org/web/20110429085601/http://www.accesstoenergy.com/view/atearchive/s76a5074.htm) Access to Energy, 2004, vol. 13, no. 8.
↑ (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#cite_ref-8) Art Robinson (https://ballotpedia.org/Art_Robinson) Ballotpedia.
↑ (https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Art_Robinson#cite_ref-9) OSU Condemns Robinson's Assertions (http://archive.is/x353K), Register Guard

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2# 013 Dillweed of the Year: Art Robinson

December 26, 2013

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It takes a special kind of dillweed to rise above all others, and although Art Robinson’s achievements extend far into times past, 2013 was a special year in which he managed to drag an entire political party even deeper into the twilight zone that is his world by way of winning the Chairmanship of Oregon’s Republican party.}:

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, as Robinson has many ongoing wonders to share. To start laying out his many honors, let’s take a look at the gloriously traveled path that made him into the dangerous goofy political figure he is today.

A Younger Art

Way back in 1942, Robinson was born under the name Arthur Brouhard Robinson. After a childhood largely shrouded in mystery—mainly because nobody cares—Robinson went on to achieve quite a list of accolades for himself. Eventually securing a Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California in 1968, he was one of very few students ever immediately hired by the university upon snagging his degree. This was a bit short lived, however, because just a couple of years later he helped found the Institute of Orthomolecular Medicine with Keene Dimick and our very own Linus Pauling. This was later renamed to the Linus Pauling Institute, and by all historical accounts of Robinson’s behavior and apparent quackery (not that Pauling was exempt from a bit of this), the fact that it wasn’t named the Arthur Brouhard Magical Mystery Institute may have been what initially drove him over the edge into Dillweedom.

By 1978, the spaghetti really started to hit the fan for Robinson. A long story short, Robinson was asked to start consulting with some other members of the institution before making any serious decisions. His response was to terminate fundraising that was used to pay the executive vice president, Richard Hicks. Pauling wasn’t having any of that, so he asked Robinson to resign, which he refused to do, and was eventually bounced by the Board of Trustees for essentially being a dillweed—subsequently suing them for over $25 million and settling for a bit over half a million.

Whether or not this falling out had anything to do with the fact that Pauling was a leftist and Robinson heartily challenged his Vitamin C claims (which, as aforementioned, sometimes got a bit quacky themselves)… we may never know. Either way, at the end of this debacle Robinson forcibly inserted himself into Oregon, where we deal with him today as a prominent member of the Republican party.

The Oregon Institute of Science and Bull#@!

Here is where his true dillweed accolades begin. Let’s start with what he did when he first moved to Oregon: founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine. Although it describes itself as “a small research institute” that studies “biochemistry, diagnostic medicine, nutrition, preventive medicine, and the molecular biology of aging,” a better description might be “a small research institute that is absolute bananas.” They’ve published books such as Nuclear War Survival Skills that vastly understate the actual danger involved and, according to their website, still offer VHS and beta tapes because, well, it must have sold really well. They’ve also sold a home schooling package specifically targeting parents that fear socialism in schools.

In 1998, they fired off the blank known as the Oregon Petition. To put it simply, this was a blanket denial of all things global warming. Utilizing the same typeface and style treatment as the official Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Robinson included his own paper that claimed the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere was actually a good thing. Keep in mind, Robinson is a biochemist, not a climate scientist, and this was basically a deliberate move to fool the tens of thousands of scientists this little turd was mailed out to at the time. Nobody that had signed the document had any more experience in the field than even Robinson himself, including his 22-year-old son Zachary. A serious dillweed move. To make matters worse, two of the signatories worked at the George C. Marshall Institute, which some of you may remember as the conservative think tank founded to support Reagan’s “Star Wars” weapons program—oh, and today they’re still around, advocating all sorts of awesome high tech weaponry. But alas, the fall of the Soviet Union really left all of them so bored they’ve regrouped to fight environmentalism. Only the greatest of dillweeds can keep this kind of company.

Before we move on, let’s give this dillweed a fair shake and hear directly from him:

“Mankind is moving the carbon in coal, oil, and natural gas from below ground to the atmosphere and surface, where it is available for conversion into living things. We are living in an increasingly lush environment of plants and animals as a result of the CO2 increase. Our children will enjoy an Earth with far more plant and animal life as [sic] that with which we now are blessed. This is a wonderful and unexpected gift from the Industrial Revolution.”

OISM’s involvement in absolutely insanity certainly doesn’t end there, and continues to this day. Just check out the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, a group associated with OISM and based deeply in the denial of everything from poison bans, radiation and vaccine dangers, and even HIV. They even give out an award to all sorts of denialist dillweeds, including Art Robinson, who won his in 1998—undoubtedly for being a total dillweed.

Access to Energy

Dillweeds have a few things in common, and one is that they can’t resist rubbing their stink over as many surfaces as possible. They’re sort of like cats, only grotesque, arrogant, and generally full of meat loaf. In addition to OISM, Robinson has a few other gems in which to dip his toes, one being the publication Access to Energy. Part poison advocate, part head shot display case for Robinson’s crumbling visage, part conspiracy whackjob pseudoscientific bouncehouse of doom, $40 a year, delivered to your door. A bargain, especially if you can figure out why Robinson likes to do the “thinking man” pose by touching his chin in all the photos.

How do you know if Access to Energy is for you? Well, if you’re into anti-environmentalism, love nuclear power and deny Darwinism, global warming and—yes, folks—AIDS, then it should be right up your extremist alley!

Politics: The Real Danger

Robinson’s involvement in dangerous and crazy publications and organizations is something that could be discussed for hundreds of pages, but let’s get to the meat and potatoes: his political standing in the state of Oregon. Having all of this wackiness to his name and a loss to Peter DeFazio (who is the current Representative for Oregon’s 4th congressional district) under his belt, as aforementioned Robinson somehow narrowly clinched the chairmanship for the Republican party here in Oregon earlier this year.

For a party that’s already in dire straits, especially in Oregon, this spells disaster not just for Republicans, but for all voters. A one-party system is unhealthy, and if this crackpot were truly able to elevate himself to such a seat, especially after being unable to become elected anywhere else, ever… it leads one to believe that the Republican party of Oregon has voted to ban anyone with common sense—ironic, because that’s the title of a mass-mailed book penned by Robinson.

For his continuing involvement in the pseudo-scientific community, practicing callousness towards those with AIDS and HIV, suggesting we should all drink irradiated water (yep, he did that, too), and for continuing to use himself as a weapon to unwittingly destroy Oregon’s political climate, Mr. Robinson is deservedly our Dillweed of the Year.

*by Johnny Beaver

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A review of the literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th century have produced no deleterious effects upon global climate or temperature. Increased carbon dioxide has, however, markedly increased plant growth rates as inferred from numerous laboratory and field experiments. There is no clear evidence, nor unique attribution, of the global effects of anthropogenic CO2 on climate. Meaningful integrated assessments of the environmental impacts of anthropogenic CO2 are not yet possible because model estimates of global and regional climate changes on interannual, decadal and centennial timescales remain highly uncertain.

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A Special Relationship & the Birth of Cambridge Analytica

Bridging the Atlantic to bring radical nativists of Trump & Brexit together via military tech & ad money, one donation or dataset at a time.

May 19,2017 · 46 min read

Steve Bannon-owned Cambridge Analytica LLC, a US subsidiary of UK defense contractor SCL Group, has been increasingly faulted for its dual role in both Donald Trump and Brexit’s victories. Its elevated & expensive role in the Trump digital marketing team’s self-proclaimed voter suppression rollout was the culmination of several years of preparation by military and anti-government interests on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as nationless finance & technology kingmakers seeking to enhance their own profit power.

As a direct result of the reporting led by the Observer’s Carole Cadwalladr, Cambridge Analytica is already under active investigation for violating United Kingdom data protection laws, as related to their involvement with Leave.EU. It’s unclear if anything will come of this, as Leave’s ‘Bad Boys of Brexit’ seem quite confident they were able to skate through some loopholes and use some creative accounting to their advantage.

Separate issues have been under the microscope of UK authorities. For example, one is the improper collection & use of voters’ personal data via the internet for political marketing/advertising purposes, and another is the question of foreign (read: non-UK) money being used to fund the Leave campaigns. Cambridge Analytica is at the center of the data inquiry, and US-based stock trader Robert Mercer has been identified as the primary source of the foreign money, but in both cases political media production & dissemination is the underlying issue.

Our previous article looked at the undertold history of the nonprofit organization Citizens United regarding highly influential American political media & advertising from 1988 to 2011, and we’ll continue just prior to where we left off. SCL was in a down period at the beginning of our tale, and its Cambridge Analytica did not yet exist.

Donald Trump would soon begin early-2011 meetings with his new friends Steve Bannon and Citizens United’s David Bossie (fresh off a huge Supreme Court victory) to plot out a Trump 2012 presidential campaign, but they ultimately decided to once again put his formal aspirations on hold.

Still, the fire rises.

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Bannon & Bossie began releasing their political issue advocacy film collaborations in 2010, months after Bossie’s Citizens United v FEC case received its big Supreme Court victory, but they were among many looking to exploit the new election [de]regulations. One such up-and-coming major player was half-billionaire Robert Mercer.

Mercer had won awards in his first career, working for IBM’s Watson AI project in the field of natural language processing, where he wrote code teaching computers how to understand humans. The avid yachtsman changed tacks slightly in 1993, as he went on to make his sudden fortune with the wildly profitable private hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, also known as RenTec, of which he is now co-CEO. Its stock-in-trade, if you will, is using quantitative analysis and high frequency trading (HFT) to win big on the global financial markets.

Quantitative analysis is a blanket term that covers a range of techniques, but the basic idea is to execute financial transactions based on predictions made by calculating large groups of historical alphanumeric sets; i.e., using existing patterns to predict future outcomes. When you’re anticipating future numbers, you might naturally expect to first inspect past numbers.

However, the standard human brain can only do so much these days, so the vast majority of work involved in this field is performed by computers. Even experts in the field — unsurprisingly called ‘quants’, though RenTec is known for exclusively employing mathematicians, physicists, and cryptographers — are still only able to quickly & accurately calculate a small grouping of historical variables. As a result, giant datasets — consisting of any number of different variables tracked over time — are fed into computers which calculate them using complex math equations, following repeatable series of preprogrammed steps that are known as algorithms.

Not only do quants employ algorithms to spit out robotically identified market trends, but they frequently direct the algorithms to buy and sell stocks all on their own. This outsourcing of labor is known as algorithmic trading, and since the computers involved are usually employing algorithms on both sides of these transactions, the trades can happen incredibly quickly (nanoseconds) and in high volumes (around half of all US equity trades). Now we’re describing the quant subgenre of high frequency trading.

HFT is very controversial within the financial industry, with supporters saying it helps keep the markets liquid & transparent and detractors saying it increases volatility, but it’s probably safe to say most outside observers think it’s very dangerous. It’s been responsible for “flash crashes”; allowed for massive accumulations of private wealth for no reason other than automated exploitation of loopholes, timezones, and bandwidth;played a sizable (or at least very profitable) role in the 2008 global financial meltdown; and put the planet’s resources under the control of larval artificial intelligence.

For these reasons, it should be no surprise HFT came under the scrutiny of regulators, but only after a decade of algorithmic trading that was enabled by the 2000 changeover to stock decimalization (pricing shares by pennies instead of quarter-dollars). The EU had been fairly vigilant in that regard, but the US government hadn’t pricked up its ears until after the July 2009 arrest of Sergey Aleynikov, a Russian-born U.S. citizen, for allegedly stealing ‘proprietary’ algorithms from his employer Goldman Sachs.

Aleynikov was accused of sticking his digital avatar hand into the “black box” — the batches of algorithms that are kept secret by HFT firms — of Goldman Sachs, but his still-active case has been in & out of courts for these past 8 years, partially because some of the laws he broke had not yet been fully written. That genre of legislative inefficiency sparked the interest ofPeter DeFazio, a Democratic congressman from Oregon, which in turn caught the eyes of quants and black box houses like RenTec.

4 minutes of HFT

DeFazio spearheaded the idea of a financial transactions tax — to impose a micropercent tax on trades that would only affect the high-volume HFT in any tangible way— and teamed up with a couple colleagues to bring bills to the floor of Congress. He got nowhere in 2009, two years after the “Quant Quake”, nor in 2010, even after the May 6th “Flash Crash” again alerted the public to the dangers of HFT. Despite the failure to ignite substantial interest, his dedication to reform did not go unnoticed.

TEST DRIVING CITIZENS UNITED

DeFazio’s 2010 reelection campaign was nearly derailed by the appearance of highly-funded ads which attacked him and supported his ‘Tea Party’ Republican opponent, Art Robinson. Created by a PAC calling itself Concerned Taxpayers of America (CTA), it had been an ongoing mystery at the time as to who put up the big money for that organization. Only a few weeks before the election, as per the then-newly lax criteria set forth by the Citizens United decision earlier that year, was it revealed that one of the only two funders was Mr Robert Mercer, who contributed $643,750.

Investigation by the Washington Post prior to the reveal turned up even more curiosities, including a denial of the existence of CTA by a PR rep standing in the doorway of its registered address and directly to DeFazio’s face. Also, we should not be surprised to learn CTA’s treasurer was Jason Miller, who would go on to become Trump’s campaign communications director starting 30 June 2016. Miller was briefly named White House communications director in December 2016, before recusing himself a few days later after a fellow campaign worker accused the otherwise married Miller of fathering her unborn child.

Mercer’s attacks on DeFazio are easily attributable to HFT tax proposals, but his support of political then-novice Art Robinson is also notable. Robinson is a crackpot pseudoscientist whose mentor was Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling, before they acrimoniously parted ways in a divorce which ultimately ended in Robinson’s $25.5m lawsuit against the Pauling Institute (which he settled for $575k).

Robinson then became a supporter of homeopathic disease cures via exposure to raw radioactive elements, as well as a well-known climate change denier, an obsessive hoarder of 14,000+ human urine samples, and a forest-dwelling widower who homeschooled his 6 children using his own Bible-based, available-for-sale “Robinson Curriculum” (all of which basically makes him the Anti-Captain Fantastic).He lost to DeFazio in 2010 and lost again & again & again in 3 subsequent elections, but managed to become the chairman of the Oregon Republican Party from 2013–15, and has recently been considered for the role of Trump’s chief Science Adviser.

Robert Mercer and his politically powerful daughter Rebekah are said to have become fans of Robinson’s after reading his newsletter “Access to Energy”, which argues such things as Chernobyl radiation and carbon pollution are ultimately beneficial to planetary life. However, Mercer has privately “downplay[ed] the dangers posed by nuclear war” when excitedly expressing his belief that Hiroshima & Nagasaki radiation made the greater population of Japan healthier, and Robinson has published a book & multi-DVD set on Nuclear War Survival Skills, so they have that hobby in common.

After bringing someone like Robinson close to victory in 2010, the Mercers’ fresh taste for political power brought them the privileges and lifestyles of the rich & famous. They soon found themselves at a2011 conference of the Club For Growth, a pro-business activist group for the conservative elite, which spent $6m of its own in support of 2010 GOP/Tea Party contenders. The Club is perhaps best known for being sued and fined by the FEC in 2005 for violating fair election laws. Its Executive Director David Keating then formed SpeechNow, a group which sued the FEC and did even more damage to campaign finance regulations via their Ninth Circuit Court victory in the immediate wake of Citizens United v FEC, but right now we’re focused on the Club as the place where Mercer first met Andrew Breitbart.

BREITBART OUT, BANNON & MERCER IN...

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https://www.wonkette.com/trumps-epa-rethinking-that-whole-radiation-is-bad-for-you-thing

Not content with giving the USA the gifts of more toxic pesticides (https://www.wonkette.com/pesticide-trumps-epa-approved-after-obamas-epa-banned-it-is-poisoning-people-but-just-mexicans) and filthy coal-mine runoff, (https://www.wonkette.com/mmmm-this-coal-water-tastes-like-freedom) the Environmental "Protection" Agency is moving to embrace the idea that some level of exposure to radiation is perfectly safe, and maybe even good for you. (https://apnews.com/6a573b6b020e453c90ecd5e84aa23f57) (Attention kids: do not try Trump Science at home.) Needless to say, some in the nuclear industry, as well as fringe scientists, fans of radiation, and those hoping to become mutant superheroes, are awfully receptive to the proposal. Honestly, now that we've decided science is just a matter of who shouts loudest, why the hell not?

The Associated Press explains (https://apnews.com/6a573b6b020e453c90ecd5e84aa23f57) this rad new idea:

Supporters of the EPA's new proposal argue the government's current no-tolerance rule for radiation damage forces unnecessary spending for handling exposure in accidents, at nuclear plants, in medical centers and at other sites.

"This would have a positive effect on human health as well as save billions and billions and billions of dollars," said Edward Calabrese, a toxicologist at the University of Massachusetts who is to be the lead witness at a congressional hearing Wednesday on EPA's proposal.

Calabrese, who made those remarks in a 2016 interview (https://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/issues/nuclear/how-much-radiation-is-too-much) with a California nonprofit, was quoted by EPA in its announcement of the proposed rule in April.

The article explains that radiation is everywhere, but this proposal involves the nasty stuff, "higher-energy, shorter-wave radiation, like X-rays, that can penetrate and disrupt living cells" -- the stuff you're not supposed to play with or use to paint clock dials (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls) anymore.

Already, this radiation-friendly thinking has penetrated -- like gamma gays! -- the EPA's online guidance on radiation exposure safety. In March of this year, the site warned, (https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/radiation/calculate-your-radiation-dose_.html) "Current science suggests there is some cancer risk from any exposure to radiation." That's still there, but in July, another part of the site added this reassurance:

According to radiation safety experts, radiation exposures of ...100 millisieverts usually result in no harmful health effects, because radiation below these levels is a minor contributor to our overall cancer risk.

Further revisions next year are expected to recommend hurling spent nuclear fuel rods at Prius drivers because it'll really piss off the libs.

Calabrese, the guy who loves radiation so much he wants you to marry it, is very passionate about people becoming more laid back about radiation, because just think of all the money to be saved!

Calabrese and his supporters argue that smaller exposures of cell-damaging radiation and other carcinogens can serve as stressors that activate the body's repair mechanisms and can make people healthier. They compare it to physical exercise or sunlight.

Mainstream scientific consensus on radiation is based on deceptive science, says Calabrese, who argued in a 2014 essay for "righting the past deceptions and correcting the ongoing errors in environmental regulation."

Fans of the book Merchants of Doubt (https://amzn.to/2QrU81e) (or its film adaptation (https://newrepublic.com/article/148126/epa-acting-like-big-tobacco)), may recognize the name of one of the Trumpers pushing this fun new approach:

The radiation regulation is supported by Steven Milloy, a Trump transition team member for the EPA who is known for challenging widely accepted ideas about manmade climate change and the health risks of tobacco. He has been promoting Calabrese's theory of healthy radiation on his blog.

Yup, Milloy is part of the same wrecking crew of corporate shills who have sought to undermine science for DECADES. And now, after insisting the jury was out on whether smoking causes cancer, he'd like you to stop bitching about itty bitty nuclear spills, please.

Not mentioned by the AP: One of the biggest fans of the notion that a little radiation isgood for you is billionaire nutjob Robert Mercer, who helped buy Donald Trump an election and whose daughter remains the biggest financial backer (https://www.wonkette.com/billionaire-trump-humper-robert-mercer-so-sad-you-think-hes-a-nazi-just-because-he-gives-money-to-nazis) of Dead Breitbart's Home For White Resentment, yes, even after Mercer's divorce from Steve Bannon (https://www.wonkette.com/steve-bannon-lost-his-billionaire-patron-last-week-thats-a-great-excuse-to-review-this-book) last year.

Mercer finds the whole idea simply enchanting, and apparently picked it up from Arthur Robinson, the crazy rightwing Oregon doctor and sheep rancher who wants to collect everyone's urine and find the secret of NIMH, or at least immortality. In addition to filling his ranch with Mercer-donated freezers (which in turn are filled not with Indianas Jones, but with 14,000 pee samples), Robinson fills the minds of dumb billionaires with fake science, as this lovely Jane Mayer profile (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency) of Mercer discussed in 2017. Mercer, you see, likes to

:{:{downplay the dangers posed by nuclear war. Mercer, speaking of the atomic bombs that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, argued that, outside of the immediate blast zones, the radiation actually made Japanese citizens healthier. The National Academy of Sciences has found no evidence to support this notion. Nevertheless, according to the onetime employee, Mercer, who is a proponent of nuclear power, "was very excited about the idea, and felt that it meant nuclear accidents weren't such a big deal." [...]}:

Robinson appears to be the source of Robert Mercer's sanguine view of nuclear radiation: in 1986, Robinson co-authored a book suggesting that the vast majority of Americans would survive "an all-out atomic attack on the United States." Robinson's institute dismisses climate change as a "false religion."}:

Well OF COURSE it does. We know of no evidence Mercer or Robinson directly influenced the new EPA thinking, but obviously those kooks are part of the anti-science deregulatory machine surrounding Trumpworld. Part of the background radiation, if you will.

If this Stop Worrying And Learn To Love The Bomb stuff all sounds a little nutty, that's because most scientists and doctors are in on the fakery, you see, insisting there's no such thing (https://apnews.com/6a573b6b020e453c90ecd5e84aa23f57) as a safe level of radiation.

Jan Beyea, a physicist whose work includes research with the National Academies of Science on the 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, said the EPA proposal on radiation and other health threats represents voices "generally dismissed by the great bulk of scientists."

The EPA proposal would lead to "increases in chemical and radiation exposures in the workplace, home and outdoor environment, including the vicinity of Superfund sites," Beyea wrote.

She noted that while individual risk from radiation may be small, more radiation in the environment would increase the total risk in the population, with corresponding increases in cancers and medical costs. Which is really a socialist way to think about health, because the only meaningful unit of measure is the individual, now isn't it?

Still, scientists seem not to recognize that in our brave new world, it's every lifeform's individual responsibility to just not bathe in radiation. One researcher, Roy Shore, told the AP a recent review of public health studies still supports the conclusion that there's no "healthy" amount of radiation exposure:

If there were a threshold that it's safe to go below, "those who profess that would have to come up with some data," Shore said in an interview.

"Certainly the evidence did not point that way," he said.

If'n you want further discussion of why the current, conservative (as in careful, not rightwing loonypants) model of radiation risk holds up, see this here fine Twitter thread. (https://twitter.com/funranium/status/1047315116541112320)

Heck, maybe if itty tiny amounts of radiation are no big, folks like Arthur Robinson, Robert Mercer, Edward Calabrese, and Steven Milloy would be willing to set up homesteads, with their children and grandchildren of course, somewhere in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone). They could boldly laugh every day at fools who think that might be a bad idea. Just think what a great reality TV show that would be!

We are kidding of course. Not only would that be cruel, but if anyone in their family did get cancer, they'd blame vaccines.

\AP (https://apnews.com/6a573b6b020e453c90ecd5e84aa23f57) / New Yorker (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/27/the-reclusive-hedge-fund-tycoon-behind-the-trump-presidency) / [New Republic (https://newrepublic.com/article/148126/epa-acting-like-big-tobacco)]

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...For the 5th time Robinson will run for Oregon’s 4th District seat after winning the primary election Tuesday. DeFazio says Robinson has the backing of billionaire Wall Street investor Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebecca.

“They’ve put millions of dollars into Robinson. Spent quite a bit of money against me.” DeFazio says, “They’ve financed his institute where he has proven that climate change is a myth and that radiation is good for us and where he’s collecting urine samples. They’re true believers. In fact, they tried to make Trump appoint him as science advisor.”

Art Robinson lives in Cave Junction. DeFazio, who lives in Springfield, has held the 4th District seat since 1987.

The Mercer Family Foundation has given over $1.4 million to the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, which is stockpiling huge amounts of human urine to “revolutionize the evaluation of personal chemistry.” In 2010 Mercer spent $600,000 in an effort to elect OISM’s co-founder Arthur Robinson to Congress. (OISM is eager to collect as much urine as possible, so if you would like to donate a sample of your own, the details are available here (http://www.oism.org/Sample_Bank_A_34_For_Internet_op.pdf).)

https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/01/12/trump-kingmaker-billionaires-robert-rebekah-mercer-pouring-millions-climate-science-denial

When it comes to climate science denial, some names come easily and deservingly to mind.

There’s oil giant ExxonMobil (https://www.desmogblog.com/exxonmobil-funding-climate-science-denial) — a company that contributed millions of dollars to organizations that told the public there was no risk from burning fossil fuels.

There are the oil billionaire Koch brothers (https://www.desmogblog.com/koch-family-foundations) — Charles and David — and their ideological zeal against government regulations that drove them to pour vast amounts into groups spreading doubt on the realities of human-caused global warming.

But a name that has not yet reached those heights of climate science denial infamy — but likely should — is the Mercer family.

Who Are the Mercers?

A DeSmog analysis of Federal Electoral Commission returns shows Robert Mercer, the reclusive hedge fund manager, has donated $30.1 million to politics since January 2015 (a further $2.3 million has come from daughter Rebekah and wife Diana).

Some $15 million of Robert Mercer’s money went into the Make America Number 1 super-PACthat was headed by Rebekah Mercer and that bankrolled the final months of Donald Trump’s campaign. One source told The Hill (http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/291772-billionaire-father-and-daughter-linked-to-trump-shakeup): “The Mercers basically own this campaign.”

But DeSmog has found the Mercers have also pumped at least $22 million into organizations that push climate science denial while blocking moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Trump too refuses to accept the evidence that climate change is caused by humans and has consistently called the issue a hoax.

Before diverting to Trump, the Mercers' cash was backing Senator Ted Cruz, who made climate science denial a main feature of his speeches (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/feb/11/checking-ted-cruzs-climate-science-denial-clangers).

Those positions on climate change, challenged by every major scientific institution in the world, are identical to those of the groups and individuals the Mercers have been handsomely funding through their own family foundation.

Climate science denial also fits well with Robert Mercer’s reported investment in Breitbart — the hyper partisan media outfit that calls climate change a hoax. Many seeBreitbart as Trump’s very own propaganda vehicle — the Trump Pravda (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-steve-bannon-breitbart-pravda-214451).

Steve Bannon, Breitbart’s former chief, was picked by Trump (or, more likely, by the Mercers) to lead his campaign. The controversial figure will be Trump’s chief strategist.

Climate Denial Funded

Very little is known about what the Mercers think about climate change or, for that matter, anything else. Both father and daughter avoid media interviews.

But Rebekah has been described as the most powerful woman in GOP (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/donald-trump-rebekah-mercer-227799) politics and is a pivotal member of the Trump team. Rebekah also runs her father’s charitable foundation.

So, the best way to get a handle on what the Mercers think, is to see where they spend their millions.

DeSmog has analyzed the Mercer Family Foundation (https://www.desmogblog.com/mercer-family-foundation)’s tax returns since 2005 and finds some $22 million has gone to groups pushing climate science denial.

Across the board, the groups funded by the Mercers have misrepresented climate science, promoted fossil fuels, denigrated renewable energy, and pushed to strip powers from the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The Chicago-based Heartland Institute (https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute) has received $4,988,000 from the Mercers, cashing its first $1 million check in 2008.

The Heartland Institute holds regular “international climate change conferences” where denialists, fossil fuel-funded scientists, and politicians come together to talk tactics.

In 2012, the institute famously started a billboard campaign (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2012/may/04/heartland-institute-global-warming-murder) that used a picture of terrorist Ted “Unabomber” Kaczynski next to the phrase: “I still believe in global warming. Do you?”

Despite the generosity of the Mercers, the Heartland Institute does not publicly acknowledge the funding, perhaps indicative of the Mercers' desire to stay below the radar.

The Mercer name was even left out of internal Heartland budget documents leaked in 2012. If the Mercers had asked for anonymity, then Heartland’s coyness is not unusual.

Another organization shy about getting cash from the Mercer Family Foundation is the George W. Bush Foundation, the organization set up in 2006 to look after the official archive of the George W. Bush presidency.

The George W. Bush Foundation publishes a lengthy list of its financial supporters (http://www.bushcenter.org/reports/2015-annual-report/) and the Mercers are not on it. But tax records show the Mercers have given the Bush Foundation $4.1 million since 2010.

Oregon Petition

Alongside funding for Breitbart and the Heartland Institute, Robert Mercer has also spent $1.25 million supporting an obscure group known as the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (https://www.desmogblog.com/oregon-institute-science-and-medicine), led by Art Robinson (https://www.desmogblog.com/art-robinson).

Robinson was behind a long-debunked “survey” of university graduates, known as the Oregon petition (https://www.desmogblog.com/oregon-petition). First published in 1998, the petition claimed that 30,000 “scientists” had declared humans were not to blame for global warming.

Robinson also thinks climate change is a hoax. His institute sells nuclear survival manuals, is currently stockpiling human urine for testing (https://theintercept.com/2016/08/23/trumps-new-billionaire-backer-also-funds-huge-stockpile-of-human-urine/), and sells home schooling kits for parents worried about their children being exposed to socialism.

Robert Mercer also supported Art Robinson’s failed 2010 Republican run (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-a-reclusive-computer-programmer-became-a-gop-money-powerhouse/2015/10/05/1af0c1bc-50b7-11e5-8c19-0b6825aa4a3a_story.html?utm_term=.bb1dc4c268aa) for Congress.

As well as Robert and his family donating to Robinson’s campaign committee (http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/com_ind/C00481341/K-O/), Robert Mercer personally gave $643,750 to a super-PAC (https://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2010&cmte=C00488437) that ran attack ads against Robinson’s Democratic opponent (that opponent, Peter DeFazio, has noted that he had co-sponsored legislation to tax hedge fund transactions (http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/wapo_finds_two_concerned_taxpa.php)).

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Art Robinson, Global Warming Skeptic, Elected Oregon GOP (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/11/art-robinson-oregon-gop_n_3741118.html)

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Aug 11, 2013 - Art Robinson, a vocal skeptic of man-made climate change who ... Robinson appeared on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" to defend his ...

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aders worked quickly to switch the recall effort into an election for a new chair which Robinson ultimately won on the third ballot in a 55-52 vote over party vice-chair Bill Currier. A third candidate, Larry Martin, was eliminated in the first round of balloting.

"The events in the last couple of months are a testimony to why Republicans are not seen in a good light," Gallagher said in a statement regarding her resignation. "The actions of some members have demonstrated the character flaws perceived by the public as uncaring, angry and antagonistic."

Robinson, a biochemist who gained support from libertarians like former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) as well as tea party activists (http://www.artforcongress.com/about/endorsements) during his unsuccessful congressional bids, has been outspoken in his belief that humans are not the root cause of global warming. Robinson is behind the Global Warming Petition Project, (http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2012/06/art_robinson_a_bridge_between.html) which claims to have the support of 31,487 American scientists opposed to climate change theories.

He is also the author of a long-running newsletter titled "Access to Energy (http://www.accesstoenergy.com/)," which drew scrutiny during his campaigns. In a 1994 newsletter on AIDS (http://www.commentary.net/view/atearchive/s76a2045.htm), he appeared to question whether HIV is the cause of AIDS, and alleged that the epidemic was exaggerated to create a "crisis."

"The arguments presented against the HIV hypothesis are sound, although they are difficult to independently evaluate. In part, they cite lack of evidence," he wrote (http://www.commentary.net/view/atearchive/s76a2045.htm). "AIDS is conveniently serving as an excuse for all sorts of social engineering, especially in the public schools, that could not be sustained without a 'crisis.'"

Robinson was also criticized for his 1997 suggestion that nuclear waste should be diluted and "sprinkle\d] over the ocean," as well as his characterization of public school as a form of [child abuse (http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/brucewilson/republican-suggested-sprinkling-radioactive-waste-america).

During his 2010 challenge to DeFazio, Robinson appeared on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show (http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rachel-maddow/39566412#39566412)" to defend his controversial views. Maddow pressed Robinson on his AIDS writings.

"There was still a debate over the cause of AIDS and I was writing about that," Robinson said (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39580065/ns/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show/t/rachel-maddow-show-thursday-oct-th/#.Uggo2GSgl8M) in response. "I wrote about all the other hypotheses, too. Fifteen years ago, the scientific debate was different than it is today."

Republican candidate also solicits urine | MSNBC (http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/republican-candidate-also-solicits-urine-243589187629)

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May 1, 2014 - Rachel Maddow reports on Art Robinson, chairman of the OregonRepublican Party and candidate for Congress, asking people to mail ...

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Oct 8, 2010 - Art Robinson is a research scientist (EDIT: not actually a scientist, see update), as well as the founder of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, ..... to actively provoke a fight, because abusers think only in terms of "who ...

OR-4: Art Robinson implodes on the Rachel Maddow (http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/10/or-4-art-robinson-implodes-rachel-maddow-show/)

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After months of in-fighting, the beleaguered Oregon Republican Party elected (http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/08/former_peter_defazio_opponent.html) a new chairman last weekend. His name is Art Robinson, and he wants to sprinkle radioactive waste from airplanes to build up our resistance to degenerative illnesses. Robinson, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress against progressive Rep. Peter DeFazio in 2010 and 2012, took over after the previous chair resigned in advance of a recall campaign over her alleged financial mismanagement.

Robinson, who has a Ph.D. in chemistry, has marketed himself for the last three decades as an expert on everything from nuclear fallout to AIDS to climate science in the pages of a monthly newsletter, Access to Energy, which he published from his compound in the small town of Cave Junction. A quick glance at his writings, which were publicized during his ill-fated challenges to DeFazio, suggest that whatever the failings of the previous party leadership—Democrats now hold all statewide elected offices and control both houses of the state Legislature—Robinson brings with him a new set of challenges entirely.

On nuclear waste (http://www.commentary.net/view/atearchive/s76a2275.htm): "All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean—or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases." And (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/19/1133750/-Republican-Suggested-Sprinkling-Radioactive-Waste-on-America): "If we could use it to enhance our own drinking water here in Oregon, where background radiation is low, it would hormetically enhance our resistance to degenerative diseases. Alas, this would be against the law."

On public schools (http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf/2010/10/art_robinson_didnt_really_mean.html): "Public education (tax-financed socialism) has become the most widespread and devastatingform of child abuse and racism in the United States. Moreover, people who have been cut off at the knees by public education are so mentally handicapped that they cannot be responsible custodians of the energy technology base or other advanced accomplishments of our civilization." (Robinson, a home-schooling activist,sells (http://www.robinsoncurriculum.com/) a DIY curriculum for $195.)

On AIDS (http://www.commentary.net/view/atearchive/s76a2045.htm): "There is a possibility that the entire 'war' on HIV and AIDS is in error. U.S. government AIDS programs are now receiving $6 billion per year and are based entirely upon the hypothesis that HIV virus causes AIDS. Yet, the articles referenced above and numerous additional publications by scientists who have become involved in this controversy state that: attempts to cause AIDS experimentally with HIV have completely failed; thousands of AIDS victims are HIV-free; and HIV shows none of the classical characteristics of a disease-producing organism. Moreover, AIDS is not a unique disease—it is an increased susceptibility to many ordinary diseases presumably as a result of depressed immune response. This depressed immunity can result from many other factors including those especially prevalent in the AIDS afflicted population—drug abuse and unhygienic exposure to very large numbers of different disease vectors. Moreover, large numbers of HIV carriers who are symptom-free are being treated by powerful life-threatening drugs that kill people in ways very similar to AIDS."

(His conclusion on the AIDS epidemic: Homosexuality might be (http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2010/10/07/5254452-if-it-were-possible-to-smear-a-person-by-quoting-to-him-things-that-he-has-published-in-his-own-newsletter?lite) a natural consequence of the gay lifestyle, and the federal government had cooked the books "as an excuse for all sorts of social engineering, especially in the public schools.")

On climate change (http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/07/art-robinson-brings-the-crazy/): "[T]here is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effectsupon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."

On diversity: (http://whoisartrobinson.defazioforcongress.org/2010/09/15/art-robinson-moreover-its-applicants-are-weighted-/#sthash.q3fa0xTW.dpuf) The white-male imbalance at his alma mater, Cal Tech, Robinson argued, was due to the fact that "its applicants are weighted toward those who seek severe, difficult, total-immersion training in science—an experience few women and blacks desire."

During his campaigns, Robinson distanced himself from his past writings—without overtly rejecting them. He conceded (http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf/2010/10/art_robinson_didnt_really_mean.html) that the nuclear waste proposal was "politically impossible" and a "complicated scientific subject (http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2010/10/07/5254452-if-it-were-possible-to-smear-a-person-by-quoting-to-him-things-that-he-has-published-in-his-own-newsletter?lite)," and on the subject of public education, admitted that "had I known I would ever run for office, I'd have said it differently." In an interview with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, he justified his AIDS theory by noting that "15 years ago, the scientific debate was different than it is today," before attempting to change the subject to taxes.

Still, Robinson's questionable scientific theories could make him some bipartisan allies; the deep-blue voters of Portland recently voted (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/22/portland-fluoride-water/2350329/) to ban fluoride from the city's drinking water.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/08/oregon-gop-art-robinson-nuclear-waste-airplanes

Arthur B. Robinson is one of the three co-founders of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oregon_Institute_of_Science_and_Medicine), a group best known for organising a petition disputing the scientific evidence for human-induced global warming.[1]

On January 7, 2009, the Willamette Week reported that Robinson is "in the vanguard of a small but vocal and persistent collection (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_change_skeptics/common_claims_and_rebuttal) of scientists, industry advocates and commentators who dismiss human culpability for climate change (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_change). ... Robinson’s critics say his analysis is simplistic, but it remains persuasive a decade later with powerful policymakers like U.S. Senator James Inhofe (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=James_Inhofe) (R-Okla.), a visible and effective player in blocking a bill to limit greenhouse-gas emissions last fall. 'The influence Robinson and the others have is to muddy the waters and delay action on global warming,' says Sheldon Rampton (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sheldon_Rampton), research director for the Center for Media and Democracy, a nonprofit organization that promotes media literacy. 'I thought he was thoroughly discredited years ago,' Rampton says. 'But the global-warming skeptics certainly haven’t given up. And they seem willing to promote anyone who can be half-plausibly sold as an expert.' Robinson’s views have been cited on Fox News (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fox_News), MSNBC and other national newscasts, such as Exposed: The Climate of Fear (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Exposed:_The_Climate_of_Fear), an hourlong special report in 2007 by CNN Headline News’ Glenn Beck (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Glenn_Beck). The report relied heavily on Robinson’s findings to attack former Vice President Al Gore (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Al_Gore)’s An Inconvenient Truth (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=An_Inconvenient_Truth)." [1 (http://wweek.com/editorial/3509/12060/)

Articles and Resources](http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_B._Robinson#Articles_and_Resources)

1.1 Related SourceWatch Articles (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_B._Robinson#Related_SourceWatch_Articles)

1.2 References (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_B._Robinson#References)

1.3 External Articles (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_B._Robinson#External_Articles)

1.3.1 Articles and Presentations by Robinson (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Arthur_B._Robinson#Articles_and_Presentations_by_Robinson)

Articles and Resources