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""Mr. Hamm absolutely did not ask to be on the search committee or to have anyone from Continental put onto the committee, nor did he ask that anyone from the O
by Aqueous 11y ago
""Mr. Hamm absolutely did not ask to be on the search committee or to have anyone from Continental put onto the committee, nor did he ask that anyone from the Oklahoma Geological Survey be dismissed," [Vice President of Public Affairs of University of Oklahoma Catherine Bishop] wrote.
Email, just paragraphs earlier in the article, from Hamm, verbatim: "I would be very interested and willing to sit on your search committee."
But I guess it's not asking if there's no question mark?
- nmrm2 11y agoHe was merely stating how nice it would be for the department to have an industry voice involved in the search. Of course it can be hard to find high-quality people in industry who are willing to volunteer their time to the university in order to sit on some boring committee. So we was merely making a charitable offer to take on the burden. ;-)
- mikeash 11y agoIf you get caught doing something like this, you might as well just blatantly lie. You won't make it worse, and at least some people will believe your lie. Why not try it? (Aside from morals, but it seems we can hardly rely on that.)
- Loughla 11y agoActually, that's not a bad approach. Most people ingest small pieces of news through headlines or whatever the talking heads spout out every ten minutes. So, lying about it gets you at least a portion of people on your side, because they'll never dig in even a cursory manner, and just believe what they're told. I assume older folks are susceptible through those yelling news talk shows. I wonder what the impact of click-bait headlines and what-not are for the younger set.