[GOAL] Re: Revealing Dialogue on "CHORUS" with David Wojick, OSTI Consultant

[Joseph Esposito]

Your position is indefensible, Professor Harnad.  Ad hominem arguments have
no place in this discussion.

Joe Esposito


On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Joseph Esposito <espositoj at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I don't know Wojick personally, but I must say that this sounds like an ad
>> hominem attack.  I have no idea what "a publishing interest lobbyist" is or
>> whether Wojick belongs to that tribe, but even lobbyists should be engaged
>> on the level of ideas.
>>
>
> 1. I don't know Wojick personally either.
>
>
> 2. There is a profound conflict of interest between the publishing
> industry and the research community insofar as OA is concerned.
>
>
> 3. Hence interests are most definitely relevant.
>
>
> 4. As I said in the exchanges I posted, Wojick sounds (to me) very much
> like a publishing interest lobbyist, but readers will have to judge for
> themselves.
>
>
> 5. It came as a surprise to me to find (after the exchange) that the Center
> for Media and Democracy Sourcewatch<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_E._Wojick>indicates that Wojick is listed
> among the "Allied Experts" of the energy industry lobbyists-controlled Natural
> Resources Stewardship Project<http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Natural_Resources_Stewardship_Project>,
> with the implication that he might have been a coal industry lobbyist.
>
>
> 6. But I agree completely with Joseph Esposito that this exchange can and
> should be evaluated "on the level of the ideas." (Did you read any further
> than the paragraph introducing Wojick, Joseph?)
>
>
> Stevan Harnad
>
>
>> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Stevan Harnad <amsciforum at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  David Wojick <http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/about/> works part
>>> time as the Senior Consultant for Innovation at OSTI<http://www.osti.gov/home/>,
>>> the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, in the Office of
>>> Science of the US Department of Energy. He has a PhD in logic and
>>> philosophy of science, an MA in mathematical logic, and a BS in civil
>>> engineering. In the exchanges below, he sounds [to me] very much like a
>>> publishing interest lobbyist, but judge for yourself. He also turns out to
>>> have a rather curious [and to me surprising] history in environmental
>>> matters <http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_E._Wojick>…
>>>
>>> Dialogue archived at:
>>> http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/1027-.html
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Joseph J. Esposito
>> Processed Media
>> espositoj at gmail.com
>> @josephjesposito
>> +Joseph Esposito
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>
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