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Nicely written piece. Lovely to read something that has a nicely balanced approach without overtones of distain or bias. People are complicated - clearly being
by sushisource 9y ago
Nicely written piece. Lovely to read something that has a nicely balanced approach without overtones of distain or bias.
People are complicated - clearly being a climate change denier seems like a pretty insane thing for an otherwise seemingly intelligent scientist to believe, but as the article mentions towards the end: Who knows, maybe the urine thing will be useful. There's no reason to dismiss it out of hand. I think using more nuclear power would be a good idea.
So much of today's rhetoric seems to want to paint people in black and white, but everyone's a mix. Even Trump has the occasional flash of not-complete-idiocy (although, to be fair, I'm having a hard time thinking of one).
- davidkuhta 9y agoI appreciated the humanity of it. In particularly, Robinson reflecting on his past decisions: > "I don’t know where she [Robinson's wife] got that disease, but my guess is that if we’d stayed in La Jolla, she’d still be alive. It would have been a different life. So I look at all this, and I know I’m lucky — I’ve got six wonderful young people working here, and they’re all brighter than me so I’m having fun. But she’s dead and the [urine] profiling was delayed for many, many years. So if I could do it over again …" He paused.