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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.energy,talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Greenpeace press releases -- fact or fiction?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 11:04:39 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- > I have no problems with the scientists who do the work and
- > report it in peer-reviewed journals. I do have something
- > against the radical fringe of the environmental movement (like
- > Greenpeace) that is quick to take a few snippets of scientific
- > results that might support their political stands, then turn
- > around and crucify the very scientists who report the data . . .
-
- =o= Can you cite any incidences of this actually happening?
-
- =o= I don't think that anyone, Greenpeace included, is going
- to argue that these press releases are any substitute for
- scientific research. Having been both a press agent and an
- editor, I've been on both ends of many press releases. They
- are odd beasts, hastily written in odd prose designed to be
- all things to all people. I know of no organization whose
- press releases don't suffer from these problems.
-
- =o= Greenpeace (the organization) does a good deal of research
- and does indeed subject it to peer review. If you have problems
- with this research, do speak u, but don't resort to the _ad_
- _hominem_ approach of rejecting it automatically because you
- don't like the way another part of the organization writes its
- press releases.
-
- > All we scientists ever hear from these fringe groups is how
- > we're raping the earth and how technology is such a crime and
- > how awful we all are.
-
- =o= One wonders what the real source of these horrible accusa-
- tions are. Imperfect as the Greenpeace press releases are, they
- don't make statements like that.
- <_Jym_>
-