Coveted ‘Carl Sagan’ Prize Goes to a Scientist Who Admitted to Conning a Conservative Think Tank
9th November 2018
A prominent California-based scientist will be awarded a prestigious science award Friday, despite the fact he admitted to obtaining confidential documents from a conservative think tank “under someone else’s name” before leaking them to reporters.
Pacific Institute President-emeritus Peter Gleick will receive the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization, named for the late science communicator and physicist Carl Sagan. Gleick will be presented with the prize at Wonderfest in San Francisco.
Fortunately Carl’s dead, so he can’t complain.