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Last week renowned physicist Hal Lewis wrote the president of the American Physical Society to tell him that he no longer wishes to be part of an organization that is part of the "scam" of global warming and "accepts corruption as the norm." Lewis then did one better: He released his letter to the public.

Lewis, who is also Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, had been a member of APS for 67 years, and his sadness and disgust is apparent as he severs his relationship with the organization. He recalls the days when science was driven by a pure quest for knowledge, likening the choice to be a physicist before WWI as a monkish existence of "poverty and abstinence." Now, he says, the business of science is just that -- a business -- with the results slanted toward the highest bidder. And global warming -- as we have all seen by the astronomic increase in Al Gore's wealth -- is big business indeed.

"The global warming scam, Lewis wrote, "with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave." He also referred to it as "the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist."