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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
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 Posted - 06/12/2006 : 14:08:08
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I really love this planet. It's the only one I've got. But so many of residents absolutely suck, to the point where I would seek another sphere to call home, were it available. So I've decided to start a thread to catalogue the idiocy and inujustice of the world. A place where can come and share stories and gripe and maybe see some positives in the sea of madness that is our political and socio-economic future. Here we are, such an evolved society, struggling with the same issues that plagued the great civilizations of Greece and Rome thousands of years ago. Oh, and it's monday and cloudy and I feel sick. But onto the impetus for my ranting:
Students' Research Ignites Political Firestorm
Why are politicians and the members of the logging industry attacking a graduate student's research paper?
"Daniel Donato never imagined his work would put him in the crosshairs of Congress. He was just studying how forests grow back after a fire.
But after his research appeared in the online version of the journal Science in January, the Oregon State University graduate student began to feel like a lightning rod. A federal agency briefly yanked funding for his project, irate politicians and timber interests e-mailed Donato's dean to complain, congressmen grilled him, and professors at his own university tried unsuccessfully to keep the paper from being published in the print edition of Science.
His principal finding — that post-fire logging hindered forest regrowth — was hardly revolutionary. But the study, with Donato as lead author, was published just as Congress was considering legislation to make it easier for timber companies to undertake salvage logging of dead trees after fires on federal land. That bill, backed by the Bush administration and recently passed by the House, is based on an underlying assumption that burned forests recover more quickly if they are logged and then replanted."
The full story is available online for those that are registered with the LA Times (I am not).
If I understand correctly, Government agencies only give funding to studies when they approve of the results?
he's back jack smoking crack find him if you want to get found
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2006 : 15:08:53
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Originally posted by speedy_m
If I understand correctly, Government agencies only give funding to studies when they approve of the results?
The funding comes before you or they know what the results are.
On the bright side that graduate student is getting alot of publicity and probably won't have trouble finding a job. |
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speedy_m
= Frankofile =
Canada
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Posted - 06/12/2006 : 16:00:03
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I was being sarcastic darwin, I realize that the funding must come first. But the government pulled the funding when they saw results they didn't like, which is where my frustrations comes from. Policy cannot be dictated by economic needs alone.
he's back jack smoking crack find him if you want to get found
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kathryn
~ Selkie Bride ~
Belgium
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Posted - 06/12/2006 : 18:35:19
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Why don't you move to Canada, speedy, since you're such a commie?
I’m the only one who can say that this light is mine
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 06/12/2006 : 19:54:14
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| Ever seen the Forestry building at the University of British Columbia? It's beautiful. A lot of timber industry money went into building it. In comparison, the Zoology department at UBC is partially in ancient temporary buildings. Amazing to say, but I think the US manages its forests better than Canada. |
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