Comments on: unCommonSense: The Missing Link or Marketing Ploy? http://commonsenserepublic.com/2009/05/20/uncommonsense-the-missing-link-or-marketing-ploy/ "Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead..." - Thomas Jefferson Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Lynn Comp http://commonsenserepublic.com/2009/05/20/uncommonsense-the-missing-link-or-marketing-ploy/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Lynn Comp Wed, 20 May 2009 23:33:53 +0000 http://commonsenserepublic.com/?p=793#comment-56 Where is my "Bang Head Here" sign???? Wow. Talk about the potential for breeding corruption - there are a couple technical ladders in the companies I've been in where the evidence is that the more someone markets their innovation widely, the better chance for a promo they have. But to see this in the university & scientific community is troubling. At least the latest Intel commercials where Intel fellows are "rock stars" is meant as a toungue-in-cheek joke instead of being very serious about the fact that their science amounts to a joke to have access to more $.... Where is my “Bang Head Here” sign???? Wow. Talk about the potential for breeding corruption - there are a couple technical ladders in the companies I’ve been in where the evidence is that the more someone markets their innovation widely, the better chance for a promo they have. But to see this in the university & scientific community is troubling. At least the latest Intel commercials where Intel fellows are “rock stars” is meant as a toungue-in-cheek joke instead of being very serious about the fact that their science amounts to a joke to have access to more $….

]]> By: Jim Fister http://commonsenserepublic.com/2009/05/20/uncommonsense-the-missing-link-or-marketing-ploy/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Jim Fister Wed, 20 May 2009 15:56:03 +0000 http://commonsenserepublic.com/?p=793#comment-55 I have a phrase I use at work: Term Paper Marketing. We already know the conclusion we want, so now all we have to do is find the data (and ONLY the data) that backs the conclusion. But I'm glad this is keeping scientists busy. Otherwise they'd be looking for conclusions that global climate warming reactionary bad bad BAD human change has only happened in the last 100 years. I have a phrase I use at work: Term Paper Marketing. We already know the conclusion we want, so now all we have to do is find the data (and ONLY the data) that backs the conclusion.

But I’m glad this is keeping scientists busy. Otherwise they’d be looking for conclusions that global climate warming reactionary bad bad BAD human change has only happened in the last 100 years.

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