Payola Profs - For the right price, they'll betray our trust

摘要

LAST YEAR a writer in Austin, Texas, named William Adler was thumbing through his local newspaper when he happened to discover something odd. An engineering professor at the University of Texas had written an opinion column about nuclear waste that sounded awfully familiar. Adler, who kept large files on nuclear issues, checked the Internet and found another column on nuclear waste in a South Carolina paper. The language was not just similar to the piece in the Austin American-Statesman—in some places it was identical.