Disclaimers

The use of "disclaimers" is common in various publications, such as newspapers and magazines. An individual writes an article, the publisher includes it in an issue of the paper or magazine, and many times includes a "disclaimer", which is an attempt to disassociate the publisher from the article. I find this practice to be an insult to the intelligence of the reader. If the publication includes an article, it is strongly implied that the publisher is in agreement with the context of the article. If this were not true, the publisher would not have included the article or alternatively would have produced some writing which would actually describe a controversial opinion.

The June 20th issue of C&E News included an article by David Hanson, a C&E News employee. Hanson's article was entitled "NSF Takes a Hit". It described the fact that Sen. Coburn is now taking the National Science Foundation (NSF) to task for inefficiency and a general waste of taxpayer funds. Hanson then goes on to protect the NSF and ridicule Sen. Coburn's attempts to improve NSF operations for the public benefit. Hanson has every right to do this as an individual, and C&E News has every right to publish the article. However, I have a problem with the subsequent disclaimer which says, "Views expressed on this page are those of the author and not necessarily those of ACS". That is a deceptive and ridiculous statement.

David Hanson works for C&E News. To continue obtaining his salary and benefits, he must satisfy his employer, and his direct employer is Rudy Baum, Editor-In-Chief of C&E News. We know from previous editorials by Rudy that he is a supporter of big government with its various science foundations, all of which have grant programs to distribute taxpayer funds to academic institutions. The NSF is one of the largest operating in this giveaway arena. Knowing Rudy's ideology, it behooves Hanson to write a favorable article on the NSF, whether he personally believes this or not.

Carry this one step farther. C&E News is a publication of the American Chemical Society. The American Chemical Society obviously has the same ideology as Rudy Baum. If it did not, it would ask Rudy Baum to take his agenda of big government and agency handouts to some other organization. Since Rudy continues to exist as editor-in-chief, ACS is complicit in everything that Rudy says, and this carries down through Hanson.

Lies and deception by the ACS in disclaiming association with C&E News and Hanson!

Subversive Operations of Environmental Organizations

I've often wondered why environmental organizations would be interested in something like a snail darter. More recently, they have become interested in a rather insignificant lizard in West Texas.

I was listening to radio talk show host Neal Boortz a few days ago, and it suddenly became clear. Neal has put his finger on the basic operational intent of most environmental organizations. In effect, Neal says, and I agree, that it is highly likely environmental organizations are really subversive organizations. They are not interested in the environment per se. What they are trying to do is change the whole social and economic basis of the United States.

Choosing a particular organism, such as a obscure lizard, is a technique used in this most recent case to convince the Department of Agriculture that all oil and gas exploration and drilling should be stopped in West Texas, while a year or two's study of this particular issue is undertaken.

I don't recall the exact relationship between the snail darter and environmental organizations, but I believe it involved a nuclear plant operation. I believe the snail darter (fish) was said to be in a stream on the downside of a nuclear plant where warm water was being delivered to the stream from the nuclear operations. This presumably would affect the life cycle of the snail darter. The actual motivation for the environmental organization was to shut down the nuclear plant.

I am personally an environmentalist, but now feel that these organizations have "used" me in their efforts to destroy the economy and culture of the US. I hope the Boortz radio program and perhaps this blog will bring to the public mind the fact that we have all been "used" in this respect.