Gulo Blue
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Right. Not illegal. He didn't break a state or federal law. It's unethical though. Some would say "highly unethical." Also, it may have been against the Harvard-Smithsonian Institute's ethical rules, and was apparently a violation of the publishing standards of the journals who published his "papers" or more accurately the "deliverables" the Koch Bros., Heritage Foundation, Southern Oil Company, and others paid him to write.
I've seen grants that require you to include a line about funding in your publications, but it's far too rare. It should be a regular thing. I guess it's possible to publish something with no funding though, so it can't be a requirement.