In my town, the local station played a montage of soaring aircraft while reciting the poem “High Flight”, then closed with the national anthem. The test pattern always featured a native American chief in full headdress in the center.
I remember seeing a tall, strikingly beautiful girl in a bikini walking along Waikiki beach. See continued to just stroll back and forth along the beach. I got the impression she was trolling for wealthy playboys.
Started in the mainframe business back in 75. Dealt with equipment that was already old at that point, including IBM 2311 disk (hydraulically operated, size of a washing machine and stored 5 MB) and an IBM 1800, equipped with a separate memory cabinet the size of a refrigerator that stored 64K of core.
I’ve been involved with research (NASA) during my career. I agree with you. Individual scientists may be biased but not an entire profession. Sometimes, over history, beliefs have become fossilized and new ideas are not easily adopted, but the scientific process wins out in the long run. When there is financial or personal security at risk, certainly there will be impetus to filter your findings to meet your interests, but the peer review process will weed out the failing ideas. Joseph Shriver’s comments above certainly prove how effective the fake information industry, well-funded by energy industry, has been at sowing doubt about scientific findings that impact their profits.
I thought he was applying for the CIA, not the Secret Service.