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  • Using phony think tanks like the Competitive Enterprise Institute, scientists-for-hire called biostitutes, slick public relations firms, and their indentured servants in the political process, they have intentionally defrauded the public by promoting the notion that global warming is a hoax or a sketchy theory that requires more study.

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Exposing ExxonMobil 2008

  • These shills-for-hire -- or "biostitutes," as Robert Kennedy Jr. dubbed them -- are the same folks who've deliberately distorted science in order to mislead consumers about the hazards of everything from tobacco to asbestos to lead, phthalates, and numerous other industrial toxins.

    Kerry Trueman: Seeds of Doubt 2009

  • For 15 years King Coal and Big Oil, led by the Exxon Corporation, have funded dozens of Washington think tanks stocked with aberrant scientists (known as biostitutes) to persuade the public and the press that the science is still out on global warming and give political cover to the industries’ indentured servants on Capitol Hill -- corporate toadies like James Inhofe and Tom DeLay.

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Facts are Stubborn Things 2008

  • And their PR firms and their faulty “biostitutes,” and all these think tanks on Capitol Hill, have done a great job over the past couple of decades of marginalizing the environmental movement, of marginalizing us as radicals, as tree huggers or, as I heard the other day, pagans who worship trees and sacrifice people.

    Wonk Room » On Earth Day Eve, ABC And Huffington Post Call Obama An ‘Indentured Servant’ To The Coal Industry [UPDATED] 2009

  • But according to the latest ads brought forth by the anti-environmental crowd, we have yet to fully and totally discredit those that are referred to as “biostitutes” — those who are willing to lie for lots of oil company money.

    Think Progress » New Ads Funded by Big Oil Portray Global Warming Science as Smear Campaign Against Carbon Dioxide 2006

  • Nowadays, having to argue with such fictions is a commonplace because Exxon is hiring biostitutes to promote their particular profit-producing fantasy.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Who the Hell Cares? 2008

  • Like clockwork each autumn, hunters and their pandering game biostitutes begin pumping the mainstream media and sport and outdoor magazines with disinformation and self aggrandizement justifying their barbaric bloodsports.

    The War on Wildlife 2007

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