: Why shouldn't he be? He obviously seems to know something about it. Cla, look, this kind of COI-seeking should be beneath you.  was in the US military in Vietnam.  is an economic geologist.  is a petroleum geologist, and I am currently finishing two papers with people who are and have been at EM. On another side of things, I have strong views about which numerical models correctly predict sea level changes and river channel evolution. We all have our histories, and William reviewed the complaint: he did not write it. 
 : On the article, I know Carl Wunsch from my time at MIT and there is no way that he would ever hint that he thinks that global warming is not true. That those [redacted] so-called "filmmakers" would do that and stand by it honestly makes me sick, or maybe they were just too moronic to understand just how global warming is complicated. Would I have a COI on that article because I am pissed to see someone I know being grossly misrepresented, thus restricting me from editing it and making the misrepresentors have precedence over my personal knowledge of the man? 
 : Or on a more benign note that I hope is a personal microcosm of what I assume this is all about, would I have a conflict of interest when talking about oil companies / geophysical models (BAD) or have some extra info in how they conduct their research / compute their solutions (GOOD)?