669: Solon charlatans besmirch hard science. Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com
Image: Trofim Lysenko, a Soviet biologist, condemned perhaps millions of people to starvation through bogus agricultural research—and did so without hesitation. Here: Lysenko speaking at the Kremlin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kremlin) in 1935. Behind him are Stanislav Kosior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Kosior) , Anastas Mikoyan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastas_Mikoyan) , Andrei Andreyev (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Andreyevich_Andreyev) and Joseph Stalin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin) . Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com; in re: Climate scientists: These people fly more than any other researchers in any other field—an average of five air trips per year; elders actually fly nine times a year. These are the very ones who insist we all stop flying. / We seem to be facing the end of the solar minimum (for seven months, no sunspot). Sunspots began again in January, have the hallmarks of belonging to the next cycle toward a solar maximum (a weak one), perhaps five years in the future.