Posted on 10/10/2010 11:06:13 AM PDT by pissant
Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society.
Anthony Watts describes it thus:
This is an important moment in science history. I would describe it as a letter on the scale of Martin Luther, nailing his 95 theses to the Wittenburg church door. It is worthy of repeating this letter in entirety on every blog that discusses science.
Its so utterly damning that Im going to run it in full without further comment. (H/T GWPF, Richard Brearley).
Dear Curt: When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinenceit was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President,
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Many thanks
I'm not sure revulsion is the right emotion. In my case it was absolutely towering rage that these holier-than-thou elitists were doing such damage to my profession (I'm a chemist, not a physicist, but ANY practitioner of science should share in that outrage). The astounding FRAUD proven by the emails, and the astounding arrogance of the global warming "in crowd" that were sending and receiving them are simply amazing.
Amen to that.
TNX, e-mail sent.
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Great article and kudos to the good professor Lewis for taking a principled stand. Government grants etc, our tax dollars at work, have bought and paid for pseudoscience for how long I wonder? It’s bad enough they fund our own in-house academic charlatans but that’s not enough. They spread they wealth around the world to get others to join in the feeding frenzy and sign off on the science fiction. Damn them all to hell!
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Indeed. Just wait. This new "earth-like" planet we have just discovered and are "100% certain" contains life will eventually contain "proof" that there are advanced "neocon" alien civilizations out there bent on stealing our vegetables and electric cars and destroying our "progressive" way of life.
I have a slighly different view. The gravy train is rolling for those two "scientists" no matter what the investigations found. But the corruption is mainly in the other direction. Government has everything to gain with global warming and will always fund research that results in the outcome they want. The fact that there are institutions on the receiving end willing to do the whitewashing, etc is actually secondary, the primary corruption lies in the government bureaucracies and their political controllers.
It is TIME to DownSize DC! Eliminate entire Departments beginning with the Federal Department of Education and the EPA.......It is TIME!
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