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Sorry, maybe my post isn't clear. My question is why is the distrust only applied towards the big business side? Notice how Zimmerman's integrity and past eth

by abduhl 11y ago

Sorry, maybe my post isn't clear. My question is why is the distrust only applied towards the big business side? Notice how Zimmerman's integrity and past ethical performance of his job is called into question due to his current relationship to Nestle while Loe and Earney's integrity and past ethical performance of their jobs is not also questioned. How do we not know that Loe and Earney didn't attempt to sabotage Nestle's legal extraction of groundwater as quid pro quo for a post-retirement gig as an activist?

obstinate 11y ago
Because: P(quid pro quo | quid∧quo) > P(quid pro quo | ¬quid∨¬quo) Where in this case, "quo" is, "we'll pay you for 'consulting' after you retire" and "quid" is "I'll stop working on your permit review." The reason for the distrust has to be obvious, so maybe there's some other question you're trying to get at with your comments? As to your question about who might be paying Loe and Earney, well, we don't know. We don't know that they're being paid at all, and there isn't anything anomalous about a biologist calling for environmental review. Conversely, we know Zimmerman is being paid, and we know that there were anomalies in the permit review process. So that objection basically boils down to, "If we suspect foul play in this one situation, why don't we suspect it in this completely different situation where the facts are not analogous." Well . . .
fnordfnordfnord 11y ago
>How do we not know that Loe and Earney didn't attempt to sabotage Nestle's legal extraction of groundwater as quid pro quo for a post-retirement gig as an activist? Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?
pmorici 11y ago
'activist' is almost certainly a volunteer or close to it position. Consultant for a large corporation is not a pro bono position.
pjc50 11y ago
post-retirement gig as an activist Go on, find an example of someone becoming a paid activist after retiring from a government gatekeeping position. Note that "activist" often means "unpaid".

by abduhl 11y ago

obstinate 11y ago

Because: P(quid pro quo | quid∧quo) > P(quid pro quo | ¬quid∨¬quo) Where in this case, "quo" is, "we'll pay you for 'consulting' after you retire" and "quid" is "I'll stop working on your permit review." The reason for the distrust has to be obvious, so maybe there's some other question you're trying to get at with your comments? As to your question about who might be paying Loe and Earney, well, we don't know. We don't know that they're being paid at all, and there isn't anything anomalous about a biologist calling for environmental review. Conversely, we know Zimmerman is being paid, and we know that there were anomalies in the permit review process. So that objection basically boils down to, "If we suspect foul play in this one situation, why don't we suspect it in this completely different situation where the facts are not analogous." Well . . .

fnordfnordfnord 11y ago

>How do we not know that Loe and Earney didn't attempt to sabotage Nestle's legal extraction of groundwater as quid pro quo for a post-retirement gig as an activist? Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?

pmorici 11y ago

'activist' is almost certainly a volunteer or close to it position. Consultant for a large corporation is not a pro bono position.

pjc50 11y ago

post-retirement gig as an activist Go on, find an example of someone becoming a paid activist after retiring from a government gatekeeping position. Note that "activist" often means "unpaid".