Silence
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David, please point me to the post where I suggested any of the things you wrote?You live in a very simple world that maybe I thought I lived in once - a world where government could request the best academic advice on a non-political problem, and all those suitably qualified would club together to put forward their best possible spokesperson. A world where academics always ignore their own self interests and most certainly never consider their grants from assorted commercial concerns. A world where no academic would dream of stifling another academics freedom of speech - least of all because it questions his own opinion.
I guess it must be oddly comforting to live in that world.
David
The reality is that you shown yourself to take an a priori position for anything "alternative" and against anything "official" or "conventional". I can understand this bias as official and institutional narratives have been filled with deception all too often. It makes even the most ardent supporter somewhat skeptical. That said, your bias leaves no middle ground. You identify posters and narratives as either pro alternative or pro conventional. Perhaps in some cases there is no villain. Perhaps in some cases human beings just prove to be fallible.