New Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) replies have exposed more misdeeds by Professor Edward Wegman and Yasmin Said at George Mason University (GMU), closely involved with the Kochs, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and many others known for attacks on climate science. This post reviews background and attaches FOIA files that unearthed evidence for:
-pervasive mis-use of Federal funds for inappropriate work,
-plagiarism or falsification in documents used to seek grants or credit,
-GMU violations of Federal...
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More on Doerr
DeSmogBlog folks might want to take a look at John Doerr's talk at a May 2007 TED conference:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/128
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is one of the world's top VC firms and Doerr one of the top VCs:
http://www.kpcb.com/team/index.php?greentech
http://www.kpcb.com/team/index.php?John%20Doerr
John is very smart, and very rich. [Was at Intel; $$ in companies like Sun, Intuit, Amazon, Google.]
This is 18 minutes long, and if you watch, make sure you watch the last minute, and you can assess whether John believes what he's saying or not.
One must always calibrate the mix of what a VC says about a market segment or portfolio company:
1) Are they doing something that they really believe in?
2) Or are they just flogging something so they can make more money?
[I hear VC pitches for companies often, so I have an opinion on this one.]
I've heard John talk a few times locally, and talked to him at parties a few times. Like everybody, he goofs on occasion (Segway), but nobody around here (Silicon Valley) ignores him.
Disclosure: I have no connection with KP. I have a little money in one of John's portfolio companies, Bloom Energy, but via a different VC firm.