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Brent
Regan writes...
Secrecy and honesty are not associated
traits. Everyone has secrets and everyone is dishonest (Honey, do these pants
make me look fat?), the only question is degree. Twenty years ago I designed a
servo hydraulic telemanipulator (robotic arm) that ran on heavy water and
glycol. It was deployed into the core of a heavy water nuclear reactor to clean
up a shattered fuel rod. Due to geo-political concerns, I was required to keep
the project secret for a period of time and, in an honest fashion, I did
so.
In my experience, people see the world through the lens of their own
experience. People who see "vast conspiracies" and "dishonesty" wherever they
look do so because that is how they think. They are themselves conspiratorial
and dishonest and apply those metrics in evaluating the behavior of
others.
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You
designed some little tool that was used at a heavy water reactor...I operated a
heavy water reactor for 10 years. When handled 97% enriched fuel, which we
kept secret. Where we being dishonest. No, simply expediant as there
was good reason and common cause for doing so. However, that situation is
in no way analogous with being secretive about associations, affiliations,
relationships and conflicted interests where this matter of Chelton, Pinpoint
D2A is concerned.
So, what
does that mean--probably nothing. I concur that we all see the world
through the lens of our own experience. However, because someone sees
an event and perceives it to be possibly conspiratorial or dishonest is
based on experience, i.e., if a it walks like a duck and quacks like a
duck...it's probably a duck. This truly is viewing the world through a
lens of experience.
What you meant to say was that dishonest
and conspiratorial people tend to see the world and events around them as being
dishonest and conspiratorial because they are reflective,
or self-reflective. I can assure you that I'm troubled, as others may
be, by these most recent events because of the secrecy I see, not because I'm a
secretive person, but I've seen this same secretive behavior many times
before and rarely has honest and honorable intent been involved.
Hopefully, this will be an
exception.
Brent,
you could save all of us a lot of time, speculating, wondering, concern and
doubt if you just came clean with everyone and spell out, in a straightforward
and frank manner, who you work for, what your relationships are, what your
financial interests are and who you aren't involved with. Why should
you do this....quite simply, when one takes a position is a sordid affair
of this matter and imply or state specific, unique knowledge and information and
required that everyone else simply has to take your word for it...well, you owe
it to people to be straightforward about where you're coming from, what's your
agenda and where your conflicts of interest lie.
If you
are unwilling to do this honorable thing, then limit or eliminate
postings that are long on opinions and void of facts. Inquiring minds
don't even care any more.
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