Has “Chief Ethics Officer” Paul T. Schafer been a stooge for LLNS since 2007? Has he ever found significant ethics violations with LLNS?
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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I think guys like Paul are going to be replaced by a group of racial rapid response teams that will look for unconscious bias, system racism, denial, micro aggressions and dogwhistles. If they accuse you there is nothing you can do since if it is unconscious you will have no idea that you did it so you yourself have no say on if you did or did not commit a violation. If you deny you will only make things worse. I think every group will need to have racial monitor to monitor and report on violations or potential for violations.
You keep posting this ridiculous stuff. Are you a believer or a chicken little?
11/27/2020 5:10 PM
I doubt that this is Chiken little stuff. After Trump is gone the executive branch is going to go full into this stuff at the labs and ever other government agency. There is only a political up side for this. (1) There will be little pushbacks. (2) It will increase Dem votes since it will always convert some people. (3) There will hiring quotas which will essentially be payoffs for certain groups.
My guess is that the training will be mandatory. If you speak out you will be punished. Lawsuits will be welcome become it means that the institution is shaking things up. You may win a lawsuit or two but your life will become horrible. Grants, promotions, positions will become increasing based on interjectionally and race theory. This has already happened in large sections of academics. STEM is the final frontier so to speak.
Ok we will how this plays out but my guess within 100 days Biden will remind the Trump order.
I think the conversation is related. The existing ethics managers job is going to increasingly focus on CRT issues. That is almost a certainty. If you have any familiarity with the university system you would know that many of the ethics issues are now focused almost solely on CRT issues. It used to be on abuse of funds, personal gifts from corporations, odd hiring practices and so on. Now 95% of is on issues related to race, sex, gender or trans issues. What happens in the universities will happen in the labs.
Ok perhaps the answer to the address the original post the outcome has to be one of the following.
(1) There are no ethics violations.
(2) There are ethics violations but he is so bad at his job that he cannot enforce anything.
(3) There are ethics violations but he is paid off to do nothing.
(4) There are ethics violations he has found them, worked on them and there was action taken but the poster is not aware of them or was dissatisfied with the outcome.
I am going to go with 4 or maybe 4 and some of 3.
Now that is settled can we go back to CRT? I think a lot of money can be made on both sides on this. If you are wrongly accused you can sue and get rich. If you think you are violated than you can sue and get rich. My guess is that millions are dollars are going to be wasted on this. It will be like UBI for certain people.
This assumes that no ethics violations have been reported. The original poster said that no ethics violations have been reported but that is not evidence. I would guess that there has been several reported violations and actions taking. Perhaps they where not in the news or widely known but I would guess this happed.
How can you get rid of the "can we go back to CRT?" troll? It should be clear to even the most challenged that the Middle East nuclear crisis is somewhat more of a concern to humanity and the design labs (LLNL and LANL).
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I absolutely agree to this point and I hope you are right. The blog deals with various issues relevant to the labs. CRT was brought up because of what happened at Sandia. At LANL further training was cancelled however it should be noted that just after the incident at Sandia that there was suddenly a push for more diversity seminars with mangers encouraging people to take seem them and take extra courses. This seminars where cancelled after the Trump order. Several managers sent out email saying how they are getting concerned people asking how get the seminars back. The point is that this may not be that big of a deal at the labs right now they could become a very big issues. If you do not believe me just look what has happened at many universities. To be clear I am for diversity, outreach and making sure everyone has a fair chance but if you have any familiarly with CRT than you will know that these ideas and diversity are just a small part of what it is actually about. In fact I would claim that CRT is really not about diversity at all but uses diversity as a tool to achieve a set of political goals. It is a political agenda, with clear political bias and essentially uses force to get what it wants. Once which hunts get going they are hard to stop until many lives are ruined. CRT has already harmed the academic and scientific credibility of many fields. This has many been in the social sciences but they have their sights set on STEM fields as well and want to radically change how science and engineering are done and evaluated. Again you have to some experience with the current academic world to see this but it could have a huge impact on the labs if this kind of mindset takes control.
On a personal note, I really doubt that there will be much pushback from academics or even the labs. I would guess the pushback will come from high tech. They can bend to some extent or at least pretend to but once it starts to really effect profits there will be a pushback. Once profit is at stake results matter. This is of course why this nonsense gets so much traction in universities and the government since results do not matter as much.
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12/02/2020 9:02 PM
OK:
11/26/2020 5:15 PM
11/30/2020 11:11 AM
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(almost the entire thread, which you terminated)
12/03/2020 12:57 PM"
Lots of things happen at Sandia, AKA "Parts R Us". The impact on the nuclear weapon design labs (LLNL and LANL) is minimal. However, taxpayers should worry about the impact on their wallets.