"Willie Soon from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics probed over failure to disclose more than $1.2m from energy industry when submitting articles".

"A Harvard-Smithsonian researcher known as a climate sceptic is under multiple ethics investigations arising from his hidden financial relationships with fossil fuel companies.

A handful of academic journals have asked Willie Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, about his failure to disclose more than $1.2m in energy industry funding when submitting articles for publication, the Climate Investigations Center (CIC) said.

Soon is also under two parallel ethics investigations by the Smithsonian, a spokesperson for the institution said.

Another journal, the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate, said it had amended a 2009 article by Soon, making it clear that he had been funded by an energy company. "
 
Suzanne Goldenberg reports for the Guardian June 11, 2015. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Willie Soon's Fossil Fuel-Funded Work Draws Ethics Review From Publisher" (InsideClimate News) [3]

"Journals Investigate Climate Skeptic Author’S Ties To Fossil Fuel Firm as New Allegations Arise" (Science) [4]

"New Charges of Climate Skeptic’s Undisclosed Ties to Energy Industry Highlight Journals’ Role as Gatekeeper" (PLOS) [5]