Hi Ed, you write: >Granted this is a sign of failure. However, we are not using fear, >only embarrassment, at least with respect to the DOE. The population >needs to realize the advantages of CF. The fear only comes if the >advantages are ignored, in the same manner death comes if the advantages >of medicine are ignored.
I was responding more to Frank Grimers suggestions; as far as I have seen so far you and Jed are dabbling in populism, in particular the sort of victimhood politics which previously were the domain of the left and are now the dominant domain of the right. I say this in a descriptive fashion, please don't take offense here. I don't think we can get very far on this issue without talking about things in a way which will repulse and disgust most rational people. So as it applies here, the DOE is the big bad government monster, and Mel is the poor downtrodden victimized scientist. That's the frame you're using, yes? >Tell me Keith, how does one go about seducing the DOE? My experience >with the government is that it is immune to seduction. It can be >bought, it can be threatened by popular pressure, or it can be >embarrassed. Otherwise, it does what current attitudes dictate. That's what most men think about women, which is why it always shocks them when the wife/girlfriend runs off with the personal trainer. That said, I was under the impression that the DOE was a dead issue at this point. RC seems to be leaning towards Houston money people ( wouldn't you love to be a fly on the wall when he tries to convince them to donate money to a California liberal arts college professor to do work that will undermine the petroleum industry? More power to you RC, if you can sell them on this I'll personally fly to Texas just to shake the hand of such a master salesman ). Everyone else seems to be leaning towards populist methods. As regards the seduction approach, you've got the wrong poster boy for starters. Read that post I did a few days ago about my Soho gallery experience, it was easy to pick out the artist, she was the most gorgeous girl in the room. Hardly an accident. I'll be really crass and say, why don't you get a hold of this person http://www.lenr-canr.org/images/Leeexperimentlarge.jpg as the public face of your effort. I can at least say that if you do an internet begging site as John suggests you'll get far more donations from that photo than from this one... http://www.ulv.edu/chemistry/img/biopic_miles.jpg Feeling oily yet? It only gets worse my friend... >If China gets CF before we do, we are toast. Also, China is not a >pleasant place to work, being very polluted. Why? Who do you think will be manufacturing the CF devices? The manufacturing base in this country is long gone. We'll be buying it from them no matter how things play out. In fact, the patent situation being what it is, we're already precluded from commercial success here in America. I mean, if all that business with the DOE wasn't about trying to change things at the USPTO, then what was it? K.
