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<br><br> Wasnt there a thread on here linking to the JASON society ?<br><br> <p></p><i></i>

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<br><br> Thanks Jeff...<br><br> An interesting study, that particular 'firm' Particularly in the light of the recent discussions regarding Van Allens belt et cetera. <p></p><i></i>

report on NPR about it in 2002-2003 time frame, FYI.<br><br>why were they disbanded? they disagreed with bush of course. <p></p><i></i>

A link to a physicist's take on JASON: <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=376">www.math.columbia.edu/~wo...ess/?p=376</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>And my thought: doesn't this diminish the stock answer of scientists about why they got into their line of work, "I wanted to help the world."? It seems to me that a lot of scientists enjoy working on weapons of mass destruction more than, say, a better teflon, or a cleaner automobile engine. <p></p><i></i>

this must be what I was refering to, from the link above:<br><br>"In 2002 DARPA stopped funding Jason, in a fight over an attempt by DARPA to impose some new members on the group that they didn’t want. This led to the group getting a new funding source: DDR&E, the umbrella for all defense research."<br><br>So it seems a new funding source stepped in to keep it going.<br><br>I don't think it's such a bad thing, it's above board and in semi-daylight at least. these people have often done a lot of good, or at least helped prevent a lot of bad. being sometimes, it seems, the only sane people in the room that 'officials' will actually listen to.<br><br><br>also from the link (my old friend the Hafnium bomb rears it's head):<br>"Many of Jason’s most successful reports over the years have played the role of shooting down a bad idea (like nuclear weapons as a counter-insurgency tool). For a recent example, see the Hafnium bomb, which is the subject of a forthcoming book entitled Imaginary Weapons : A Journey Through the Pentagon’s Scientific Underworld." <p></p><i></i>