Freelance Scientist: Ready, Willing and Able

First sticks, then stones. Now calling names. Tom Bothell points out that some of the people's assumptions about science are produced by the mass media. What a stunning relevation, no. Coulda fooled me. Yeah, right.

Bothell does make some valid points on who controls the funding, sets the direction of the endeavor, and if you've contractually sold your time, you are obligated to work on your employers task on his time. Being freelance - i sell my time or trade it in exchange for other people's time. If Mr. Bothell can arrange for ONRRI to be funded to assess the real chemistry of atmospheric conditions that lead to the generation of excess heat currently being displayed on thermal monitoring devices, i would promise an impartial assessment based on expert publications and how they stack up to a new theory of chemistry/physics interplay that i have been developing. I have no financial interest in any climate concern, though i admit to knowing and liking George Taylor - the Oregon State Climatologist. George gives a great lecture!

Doctor Lenny feels he should note that Mr. Bothell has a new book on the market - A Politically Incorrect View of Science - which I have not read, but is on my pick up list. Also - if somebody is a computer - that is has good analytic computational skills to understand flow dynamics of computation when different factors have different weights, i have two computational statistics problems that would easily earn a PhD at any accredited institution because the algorithym development in my brain needs to be extracted by somebody who comprehends the advanced mathematics and has the time to tease it howdt. I believe i can crack eight dimentional space in a physical model that applies game theory to evaluating learning environments - a basis for a different approach altogether. I have a new theory of chemistry based on d and f orbital dynamics that requires taking Pauling's Nature of the Chemical Bond and group theory and tabulating bond energies to help me look for specific activities in nature that demonstrate the philosophy of the novel chemistry. Nature is a cool laboratory - many places to hike and enjoy while thinking.
Meanwhile - biofuels, a totally dead-end idea - gets tons of funding lavished upon it because - (nothing to do with ADM). Which proves Mr. Bothell's point.