Tech’s ties to uranium cash raise questions
By Christina Nuckols
With the nation’s largest known undeveloped uranium deposit 100 miles from campus, it’s hard to blame Virginia Tech professors interested in energy research for beating a path to Pittsylvania County, home to an estimated 119 million pounds of the radioactive ore.
But Tech officials have opened themselves up to criticism by failing to fully explain the university’s complex relationship, particularly its financial connections, with Virginia Uranium Inc., the company seeking permission to mine the site.
Nuckols is editorial page editor of The Roanoke Times.
March 10, 2013 - 8:02 AM
This is a problem? What about all the funds spend for university research that end up trying to justify the theory of global warming? Looks like the same thing to me. Government pushes global warming and gets validation from higher education. Same goes for uranium.
Well you see Al, it’s a problem because liberals are in favor of research that supports global warming. If you are challenging that, then questioning financial ties and academic integrity is an unforgivable insult to the researchers. However, if it it’s about something like uranium mining, it’s okay to to ask those questions and imply impropriety exists even if there is no real evidence. You see, it isn’t reality that matters, just which side of the argument you’re on.
well guys, as a liberal who’s concerned about global warming, my take on this editorial is that it looks like VT and the professor named in the article followed fairly strict guidelines for handling private external funding and there doesnt seem to be anything sneaky or improper going on there.
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when you accept research funds from a private concern with a financial stake in reaching a certain outcome, however, you do immediately and permanently give up any claim to impartiality on that area of research, even though you might be functioning in an impartial manner.
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what financial stake does the govt have in global warming? if anything they would like it to be proved wrong because otherwise its going to be very expensive dealing with it.
NW..”what financial stakes does the government have…?”
Regulation===>Control===>POWER!
#4 Bud, that’s not a financial stake.
NW..oh it’s not?
If you have a business, are a “head ” of an industry, a leader of some agenda, and need a regulation amended or added who might you go see and just what might you have to bring with you? A certain congressman, a committee chair and a checkbook?
Look at what happened with the (non)stimulus bill and the solar/wind groups.
Billions of dollars doled out by agencies within the fed gov to the well connected.
Regulation===> Control===>Power ..and I’m not talking amperage.