Comments on: Politics or Science? http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3388 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Roger A. Pielke, Jr. http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3388&cpage=1#comment-893 Roger A. Pielke, Jr. Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:16:11 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3388#comment-893 Jim- It is hard to assess the conference without more details. I assume that it was sponsored by this group ... http://www.scientific-alliance.org/index.htm ... which has a pretty poor website. It is hard to identify who they are and I can't find anything about the conference on their site. Based on the names of participants listed in the BBC article and the Scientific Alliance's apparent partnership with the US-based George C. Marshall Institute, it looks to me like they are a political advocacy group. Unlike TCS, Cato, NRDC, Worldwatch or many other advoacy groups who tell you where they are coming from, the Scientific Alliance does not appear (as far as I can see) to share their underlying agenda on their WWW site. I don't think that they are trying to serve as honest brokers on science. Jim- It is hard to assess the conference without more details. I assume that it was sponsored by this group …

http://www.scientific-alliance.org/index.htm

… which has a pretty poor website. It is hard to identify who they are and I can’t find anything about the conference on their site. Based on the names of participants listed in the BBC article and the Scientific Alliance’s apparent partnership with the US-based George C. Marshall Institute, it looks to me like they are a political advocacy group. Unlike TCS, Cato, NRDC, Worldwatch or many other advoacy groups who tell you where they are coming from, the Scientific Alliance does not appear (as far as I can see) to share their underlying agenda on their WWW site. I don’t think that they are trying to serve as honest brokers on science.

]]> By: Jim http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=3388&cpage=1#comment-892 Jim Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:55:33 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheusreborn/?p=3388#comment-892 What is your take on this conference? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4203021.stm What is your take on this conference?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4203021.stm

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