Damage from Consensus Science - Oliver K Manuel

[Derek]

OKM, writes as follows,

Dear friends,

1. Over fifty years ago President Dwight D. Eisenhower solemnly warned of the danger to our democracy if a "scientific-technological elite" ever took control of public policy [Farewell address (17 Jan 1961)]

Document: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOLld5PR4ts


2. Last week an editorial in Nature confirmed the danger of using consensus reports as scientific facts for government policy [Nature 5, 7 (5 Oct 2011)].

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111005/f...8007a.html


3. Today it was noted that forty years (1971-2001) of using consensus reports to guide government policy has severely damaged:

a.) The integrity of government science, and
b.) The fragile self-governance we inherited in 1776!

http://judithcurry.com/2011/10/05/2011-n...ent-121893


With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Former NASA Principal
Investigator for Apollo
Career: Document
Career: Video

[Climate Realist]

Is that the chap who was arrested for sex crimes this year??

"olivers work cant stand up to it at all. even an ameteur can tell you that while he pretends to be an expert in a field he has no training in. he wont listen to any critisisms and, the the last and worst part. while calling scientists liars and hiding evidence and trying to keep people in the dark he was molesting his children. I truly wish it were a joke but google"Oliver K. Manuel arrested."

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-09-reve...truth.html

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OKM was banned from this site for that reason!

[Sunsettommy]

Derek and myself along with JohnWho knows all about his past.I discussed it through the PM system.

I was the one who banned him from the forum.To prevent his personal participation here.

However I will allow Derek to make postings about what Mr. Manual writes about.

[Derek]

In the previously given link, which I will repeat.
http://myprofile.cos.com/manuelo09

Qualifications
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, Physics and Mass Spectrometry, 1964.
Ph.D., University of Arkansas, Nuclear Chemistry and Mass Spectrometry, 1963.
M.S., University of Arkansas, Nuclear Chemistry, 1962.
B.S., Kansas State College, Pittsburg, Kansas, Chemistry and Mathematics, 1959.

Climate Realist wrote,
"untrained" ?????

Also look under,
Expertise and Research Interests
Other Expertise
Honors and Awards
Previous Positions
Publications

The crimes are unforgivable, of that there is no doubt, but,
the work still stands,
and that gives rise to issues that are best discussed.