Beware the rise of the government scientists turned lobbyists
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/29/beware-rise-government-scientists-lobbyists
What happens to people when they become government science advisers? Are their children taken hostage? Is a dossier of compromising photographs kept, ready to send to the Sun if they step out of line?
I ask because, in too many cases, they soon begin to sound less like scientists than industrial lobbyists.