[LEPS-L:7936] RE: Misinformation?

[Mark Walker]

Fred Heath wrote (in a personal email),

> 	This is not to say that opposition scientists can't 
> exaggerate or
> push a particular agenda, but they are usually scientists 
> first and not the
> marketeers which folks can become in working for the chemical 
> or tobacco
> companies.


Hi Fred - where are you these days?

I guess I would assume that the individual personalities that fill these
positions rotate frequently, and that just about any scientist might accept
such a position when given the opportunity.  I'm not arguing that company
retained ecologists and biologists aren't equipped with more funding - nor
that they aren't often "guided" in their experimenting.  Only that they are
similarly trained people using the same methodologies as those on the other
side.

Mark Walker

 
> 
> 	 Michael Gochfeld wrote:
> 
> > > I cannot agree about equally adept.  Again I'll refer to the 
> > > scientists 
> > > hired by the tobacco industry to attempt to mislead the 
> > > public and the 
> > > scientists into believing that "there is really no proof 
> that smoking 
> > > causes lung cancer".  These are well funded, highly professional 
> > > mis-leaders, often equipped with colorful videos and dazzling 
> > > graphics. 
> > > 
> > > Most scientists, and certainly those who argued the 
> contrary position 
> > > for years were hardly their equal.
> >  
> > Michael - you make it sound like some conspiracy.  Isn't it 
> true that
> > these
> > "highly professional mis-leaders" are simply scientists and 
> colleagues who
> > are being retained and paid?  Aren't they similarly trained 
> and equally
> > capable of speaking out of both sides of the mouth at the same time?
> > 
> > Why is it "certain" that these scientists are not equaled by their
> > colleagues supporting the opposition?
> > 
> > Mark Walker
> > Oceanside, CA
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> 
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