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Vint Cerf and Others Form Advocacy Group

Posted by michael on from the forgetting-about-the-green-party-as-usual dept.

Omega writes "Vint Cerf, father of TCP/IP, and several Nobel Prize winners have formed a 527 committee called 'Scientists and Engineers for Change.' Among their major complaints are that the Bush administration has ignored and misused scientific findings to achieve political goals and that it has stifled scientific research. While the group isn't officially endorsing Kerry, Dr. Cerf points out it's pretty obvious what their goal is."

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  1. Re:Obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Did you just call Jesus a tool?

  2. Re:Obvious by shpoffo · · Score: 2, Funny

    My friend's wife came up with an interesting proposition for the way this works. She called it "Lie Capital" and it is the notionwhen one group lies, it gives antithetical groups permission to do so as well. When the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth came out, the Kerry Campaign genrated a fair bit of Lie Capital to 'play the market' with. The Scientists and Engineers for Change is drawing from those coffers in order to act. In this model the SEC is drawing from Lie Capital coffers a bit less than the SBVFT because their sources are a bit more well documented (to the best of my knowledge).

    It would seem to involve quite a "Law of Conservation of Political Energy" as the trick is to take actions that float one's own campaign with out creating an accumulation of Lie Capital for your opponent - or perhaps to create a vector of Lie Capital that your opponent has blinded themselves to!

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    -shpoffo