Another Voice
It is always of interest to me to see letters/opinions of others about politically-run (or sick) organizations. I attach a letter to a local paper discussing what the writer thinks as some problems with various agencies.
I do not agree with all his thoughts and will not go into a discussion on them here, having discussed much of this in previous posts, but government "research" agencies without political control that tell the truth (rather than a political position) and actually serve the public all the time (rather than politicians, corporations, etc. most of the time) are dreams that will probably never come true.
Government, university, and corporate "scientists" must embrace and support the political wishes of their bosses if they want to remain employed. If the political position is the same as the truth, then we get the truth. If not, we get the political untrue answer.
The accents in the letter below are mine.
Adrian R. Lawler, Ph.D. , (C) 2012 --
Dispersants could have caused dolphin deaths (Letter)
Published: Saturday, July 21, 2012, The Mississippi Press, p. 5A, 6:33 AM
By Mississippi Press Editorial Board
I read with some interest, and some disbelief, the July 19 article headlined "Report ties cold Gulf water to dolphin deaths," on the front page of The Mississippi Press. I see that researchers are attributing the stillborn and early deaths of bottlenose dolphins to -- what else? -- global warming, without actually saying it.
This is really starting to be more than troubling. The main trouble is that there is no long-term, unmanipulated data that can justify the global warming consensus of bought-and paid-off researchers.
The overwhelming number of non-research granted scientists completely disagree with the manmade warming theory. That's all it is, by the way -- a theory, unsubstantiated in factual data. It would take thousands of years of data to make the theory fact.
As a retired research-and-development analyst for a major chemical company on the coast, I know full well the patent-protected polymer businesses that made the dispersants used by BP are fully capable of wreaking this kind of havoc with marine mammals. The cancer rates in workers after the Exxon Valdez spill is evidence enough. The wildlife damage there was unequaled in modern times. Why should we expect anything different here?
If it weren't for the belief that most of the researchers are not deliberately trying to avoid placing blame, this scientist would believe that a large cover-up exists.
Every research facility worth mentioning got large research grants via BP after the 2010 oil spill and the general information stream changed in tone, filtered through management, after receiving those grants.
I believe that the heavy metals and long-chain organic molecules used in the dispersants are placing and, for an extended time, will continue to place our Gulf in a very precarious position. Money buys silence, and in this case it was a huge amount of money.
We need the oil wells. That's a fact of modern life. But what we need even more is a government whose bureaucracies are honest, unaffected and thorough. Not the kind of federal agencies we currently have, run by radicals and labor unions, with politicians making the decisions based on the political wind.
Preferably, these agencies should be staffed and controlled by professionals, held to the highest standards of integrity and honesty, devoid of useless regulations designed to protect the politicians. And fines and punishments that would make deliberate cheating, dangerous shortcuts and lying so expensive that they wouldn't ever happen.
DOUG DENEHIE
Ocean Springs
published: Saturday, July 21, 2012, 6:33 AM
http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-opinion/2012/07/dispersants_could_have_caused_dolphin_deaths_letter.html
