#shorts Senator Kennedy asked, “the Murphy family of Murphy Oil and the Deming family of Murphy Oil have recently given Tulane $25 million. Do you think… Have you called on Tulane to give that money back?

Witness: Well, it’s, uh, not… They didn’t give that money to my unit or the department or school that I have.
Kennedy: Have you called on Tulane to give that money back, or do you think that’s okay for them to keep it?
Witness: It’s their prerogative, not mine.

Kennedy: But yet you just signed a letter saying that all elite universities should refuse fossil fuel money. Did you put a footnote in there and say, “except my own”?

Witness: Well, what I’d like to say, Senator, is that I believe it raises a conflict of interest for those that research climate change that are supported by the fossil fuel…

Kennedy: Yeah, but then why don’t you ask Tulane to give the $25 million dollars back?

Witness: Well, I think in the context, if that money were to be used to support climate research, information, disinformation, or whatever it may be, then that may be an appropriate conflict of interest. But I think in the context…

Kennedy: You don’t see the hypocrisy here?

Witness: It is hypocrisy, and those that may read and interpret it as such…
Kennedy: Maybe it’s like Washington. If there weren’t double standards, there wouldn’t be standards at all.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/heeZPcCfJtw
why don’t you ask Tulane to give $25M back? Kennedy questions Tulane prof climate hypocrisy