On June 3 in an interview with UK columnist Christopher Booker he said: ''I suppose if the government tips money into outfits like the CSIRO...or the ABC they will keep articulating what government wants to hear, won't they.''

Broadcaster Alan Jones. Credit:Andrew Meares

In another recent interview with David Archibald of the Institute of World Politics Mr Jones quoted approvingly Mr Archibald's "sadness as a scientist ... that our scientific institutions", including the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and many universities, "have failed in their duty to serve and protect the Australian people" by claiming that global warming is real only because "they want the money, they keep being funded by the government and they tell the government what they want to hear".

''They (scientists) are going where the money is, he who pays the piper calls the tune,'' he said again in July.

Does Mr Jones have any evidence for these 'cash for comment' and 'cash for science' allegations?