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 Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:36 am Post subject: Global Warming "Research" Diverting Funds From Product ive E |
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11 Oct 2008
This article concerning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry caught my
attention this morning:
Are we Starving Science?
Twenty years ago, Douglas Prasher was one of the driving forces behind
research that earned a Nobel Prize in chemistry this week. But today, he>s
just driving.
Prasher, 57, works as a courtesy shuttle operator at a Huntsville, Ala.,
Toyota dealership. While his former colleagues will fly to Stockholm in
December to accept the Nobel Prize and a $1.4 million check, the former
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist will be earning $10 an
hour while trying to put two of his children through college.
Shuttle driver reflects on Nobel snub - Cape Cod TImes
Are we starving science research in other areas to pursue accelerated
and possibly needless research into Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)
and the dire consequences of AGW at the expense of other more productive
and beneficial areas of study?
We have recently heard from Richard A. Muller justifying the distortions
and untruths of Al Gore (I guess if the untruths were committed
willingly, one could call them LIES) as necessary to stir the public to
combat AGW, but at the same time are these tactics shifting funding away
from more deserving science projects?
While it was perfectly within his rights not to share the cloned gene
with others, Prasher said he felt an obligation to give his research a
chance to turn into something significant, even if he was no longer a
part of it.
"When you>re using public funds, I personally believe you have an
obligation to share," Prasher said.
How many researchers like Douglas Prasher are under-employed while
others like Hansen and Mann receive lecture fees and yet continue to
obfuscate data and research paid for by public funds simply to protect
their 'empires'?
Your guess is as good as mine, but I ask if spending money on research
to explore to the link between global warming and kidney stones really a
good use of a limited resource?
In a final thought, I hope some research facility sees this article and
offers Doug a job that pays better than $10 an hour. Clearly, he is a
more deserving scientist than many of the AGW researchers.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/10/11/global_warming_scare_starving_science/
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"The great sin of capitalism is its unequal distribution of benefits.
The great virtue of socialism is its equal distribution of miseries."
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