Talk:Industry-friendly experts

Sentence Needs Explanation
I think this sentence needs finishing with an explanation why - "Over time the expert will moderate this position or limit its applicability."

Criteris for Inclusion
I'm wondering about the listing of Christopher John Dodd. If a name is going to be listed here, then there should be evidence of their qualification as industry-friendly expert. That would seem to be a minimum fundamental criteria for inclusion in that, and other, lists. --Maynard 17:18 17 Nov 2003 (EST)

-- I agree with your concern M -- I suspect the basis of being included in the 'industry friendly' category was membership of CFR. [snippage] and even if he is a member I suspect its setting the bar too low for inclusion in that category (it would fit in a cetgory of 'politician' but then listing every politician in the world who's supportive of business in some form is getting a bit away from the prime purpose of SourceWatch I would have thought -- which is why my initial response was deletion -- Bob

CFR
Personally, in spite of my progressive, liberal, radical, conservative, conspiratorial, and other independent leanings, I'm not persuaded that todays CFR is the evil entity of its past; nor that all members thereof are "industry friendly experts".

There's plenty of room yet to consider whether Golden Leashes should have a topic/list separate from "industry funded experts"; which discussion should probably move to its appropriate talk page. --Maynard

Query on Allen
Has anybody heard of Helen Haynes Allen? She claims to have a Ph.D in Sociology from Columbia in and a M.S. in Developing Area Studies from Hull University in England. However, when I reviewed the websites for these universities, the Ph.D program at Columbia required a Master's Degree in Psychology and there wasn't even a program in Developing Area Studies. Her cohort is William Miller, who is now the de-factor Manager of the Lake & Peninsula Business Development Center (a front group for Northern Dynasty and other mining companies in the Lake & Peninsula Borough area of Alaska).

Relocating Empty Name Links
I have removed all the empty name links that have been on the article page for a couple of reasons:
 * it is confusing for readers who arenlt sure what the read link means
 * most have been there for a long time;
 * in the absence of some information, there is no basis for judging whether they should be included in the list or not.

So I have reposted them below. --Bob Burton 19:38, 5 August 2007 (EDT)


 * Helen Haynes Allen
 * Duwayne M. Anderson
 * John Apel deceased
 * David Aubrey
 * Ronald Bailey
 * Kenneth V. Beard
 * Hazen A. Bedke
 * Warren Berning
 * Jiri Blumel
 * Bruce Boe
 * Arthur Bourne
 * Larry H. Brace
 * Edward A. Brandes
 * Norman M.D. Brown
 * R.A.D. Byron-Scott
 * Joseph Cain
 * Nigel Calder (science journalist)
 * Stanley Changnon
 * Thomas C. Childers
 * Henrik Christoffersen
 * Ian D. Clark
 * Terrance J. Clark
 * Gabriel T. Csanady
 * Robert M. Cunningham
 * Fred W. Decker
 * Andrew Detwiler
 * Wolfgang Donsbach
 * K. Eric Drexler
 * Earl G. Droessler
 * Bruce Eberle
 * Lee W. Eddington
 * Robert D. Elliott
 * John Emsley
 * Brian Fiedler
 * Lynn Forester
 * Bob Foster
 * Neil L. Frank
 * Chris de Freitas
 * Robert Frietas
 * Otto Franzle
 * Mick Fuller
 * Michael Garstang
 * John E. Gaynor
 * Peter F. Giddings
 * Neil Gilbert
 * Steve Gillett
 * Thomas Gold
 * H.G. Goodell
 * James D. Goodridge
 * Adrian Gordon
 * Theodore Gordon
 * Eckhard Grimmel
 * Nathaniel B. Guttman
 * J. Storrs Hall
 * Paul Handler
 * Steven R. Hanna
 * Robin Hanson
 * William Happer
 * Vern Harnapp
 * Willis M. Hawkins
 * Howard C. Hayden
 * Bernadine Healy
 * David Henderson
 * Jeremy Hodge
 * Austin W. Hogan
 * William Hubbard
 * Heinz Hug
 * Hans Jelbring
 * Robert A. Kehoe deceased
 * Robert L. Kovach
 * Theodor Landscheidt deceased
 * Roy Leep
 * David R. Legates
 * Marcel Leroux
 * Heinz H. Lettau
 * Scott O. Lilienfeld
 * Thomas Lockhart
 * J. P. Lodge
 * Anthony R. Lupo
 * John J. McCarthy
 * John A. McGinley
 * H. Read McGrath
 * Daniel J. McNaughton
 * George E. McVehil
 * Jessica Tucher Mathews
 * Ralph Merkle
 * Paul W. Mielke
 * William ("Bill") Miller
 * Asmunn Moene
 * Nils-Axel Moerner
 * James A. Moore
 * Thomas G. Moore
 * Hans Moravec
 * Tad Murty
 * Robert A. Neff
 * Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
 * James J. O'Brien
 * Rafael Pagan
 * Christine Peterson
 * Nelson Polsby
 * Harrison Pope
 * William Porch
 * Harry Priem
 * William E. Reifsnyder
 * David W. Reynolds
 * Alexander Robertson
 * Arthur B. Robinson
 * David P. Rogers
 * Thomas Schmidlin
 * Melvyn Shapiro
 * Jane Shaw
 * Timothy Shufelt
 * A. F. Smith
 * Robert Sproull
 * Fred J. Starheim
 * Robert E. Stevenson deceased
 * Stephen Strauss
 * George Stroke
 * Heinz Sundermann
 * Arlen Super
 * Brian Sussman
 * George H. Sutton
 * Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
 * Vladimir Svidersky
 * M. Talwani
 * W. F. Tanner
 * Donald Tapscott
 * Humphrey Taylor
 * Peter Arnold Toynbee
 * Michael S. Uhart
 * Robin Vaugh
 * Jan Veizer
 * Harlan Watson
 * Robert C. Wentworth
 * Robert C. Whitten
 * Earle R. Williams
 * Jerry A. Williams
 * Christian Wolf
 * Klaus Wyrtki
 * Joseph Zabransky, Jr.
 * Robert E. Zabrecky