King casually compares Three Mile Island to an X-ray

“In 1969, forty-eight professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology formed the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) to protest America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The group conducted a highly publicized strike in March 1969, that included such speakers as leftist MIT professor Noam Chomsky, and Eric Mann of the Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic Society. (SDS was the terrorist organization responsible for bombing the U.S. Capitol Building in 1971.) The Union used the strike as a forum to declare that misuse of scientific and technical knowledge presents a major threat to the existence of mankind. This philosophy was starkly articulated by key organizer, Jonathan Kabat: You’ve got to say, No, we want capitalism to come to an end.”

“The Union’s trendy radicalism launched it into money, power and influence. A permanent office was opened in Cambridge, and UCS grew into a multimillion dollar activist organization. Three of its original founders still sit on the board: James A. Fay, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering (MIT); Kurt Gottfried, Chairman of the Physics Department at Cornell University; and Victor Weisskopf, Professor Emeritus of Physics (MIT). The Board of Directors of this organization also includes the standard litany of corporate America special interests, liberal nonprofit foundations, and former government agency employees. “

“Political activism in UCS’s early years was confined primarily to opposing nuclear power and the military defense establishment. Emphasis later shifted to include all energy policy issues and global warming. In 1989, the Union commissioned Republican pollster Vince Breglio of Research/Strategy/Management to conduct a survey on global warming and environmental protection. Breglio found that the environment is becoming a political issue with some bite. This poll convinced the group to change its focus. In 1990, UCS brought together forty-nine Nobel laureates, and 700 members of the U.S. Academy of Scientists to sign an appeal for action against global warming. The event was highly publicized and called for tougher fuel efficiency standards for U.S. automobiles, centralized government control of energy issues and the continued deactivation of America’s nuclear power generating industry. That same year, however, 425 scientists and intellectual leaders presented another document to the world at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janerio. Entitled The Heidelberg Appeal, it condemned UCSs document as an irrational ideology which is opposed to scientific and industrial progress and impedes economic and social development. Today, more than 2,700 signatories, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, from 102 countries have signed The Heidelberg Appeal. “

Go to http://www.campaignmoney.com, click on “employer” at the upper right hand side of the page and then do a search on “Union of Concerned Scientists – FOR ALL FIVE ELECTION CYCLES PROVIDED.

Every donation by various UCS employees is to a Democrat or the DNC. Every one.

From Daily Kos:

“You can't get hired, I bet, at the New York Times if you know what an “exajoule” is.

Neither would you know that building just two nuclear reactors over two decades would provide more energy production per year than 50 years of making solar cells has been able to produce.

Too expensive. Accident. Slow. Cost overrun.

And then they make sure that you hear the words of the Union of Concerned “Scientists” (quotation marks mine) who has a “nuclear expert” named David Lochbaum. And why is David Lochbaum an expert?

Has he published a series of famous papers on mass balance of minor actinide burn-up in the cores of light water reactors? Is he a world expert on germanium based detection of neutron fluxes? Does he supervise a team of graduate students researching non destructive testing of fuel rods achieving high burn-ups in reactor cores? Is he a much sought lecturer on the subject of separations of europium from curium in electrolytic pyroprocessing of metallic spent nuclear fuels?

Well no.

I mean, what, exactly makes David Lochbaum a nuclear expert worthy of immediate reference by the New York Times whenever they discuss nuclear energy.

Well for one thing, David Lochbaum is a professional nuclear opponent hired by a reflexive antinuclear organization that collects lots of money for professionally opposing nuclear energy. (Nothing circular here, is there?) In other words, David Lochbaum is a professional anti-nuclear shill, who is paid to oppose nuclear energy.

And why did the Union of Concerned “Scientists” (which has, on its board people from sciences like “lawyer science” and “actress science”) hire David Lochbaum to be a tireless antinuclear activist?

Because he had a degree in nuclear engineering. And…?…?…?

Oh yes, because he once worked at Brown's Ferry 1, a reactor that shut twenty two years ago.

And in those twenty years he has done what research, published what papers, had access to what reactors…?

Who cares?

He's an expert. He don't need no stinking “research.”

Why?

Because the Union of Concerned “Scientists,” (another member of the board is a “scientist” in Capitalist Investment Science) says he is an expert.

Speaking of “scientists” an international group of scientists known as the IPCC recently gathered to discuss the fact that dangerous fossil fuel waste is accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere and represents a severe threat to humankind.

No, David Lochbaum, doesn't know shit about that either.”

Riverdog pats cocinero on back for repeating what riverdog already said. Powerful stuff.

That's rich, quoting Nnadir's ranting about how nuclear power will save us all.
He's wrong, but heat least has got some intellect.

Unlike you.

You really must ask for that raise from those lobbyists, if only to pay for the Pepto, Peggy.
I'm sure than can do better than $6.50 an hour.

Hey, I have an idea.
Start a union, why don't you?