This is a 12 minute audio segment from National Public Radio, interviewing a scientist who was hoping to do research on the oil spill to learn how to better deal with large spills in the future. However, he was being stonewalled because the corporations would prefer that this sort of thing be left unknown for liability reasons.
It was from about two weeks ago, but I forgot to post it then. I imagine by now they successfully stonewalled him. But it is still interesting.
http://public.npr.org / anon.npr-mp3 / npr / totn / 2010 / 07 / 20100716_totn_01 . mp3 ? dl=1
(Both links should lead to the same thing, though the podcast version has a bit more show information packaged with the file. I figured I’d post both in case one doesn’t work and I don’t notice.)
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I meant to thank you for posting this earlier, uzi. Oh well, better late than never.
My comment: People like to think that corporations do research and advance science. Nothing could be further from the truth. What they want is proprietary information that they can use to, and it’s hard to believe I even need to say this, “improve the bottom line”.
All corps care about is profits. Period.
Not jobs, not advancing science/society, not the people who work for them (beyond “how much money are they making us?”), nothing else.
Just profits.
(And yeah, I know, profits = income – costs, like “liability for fouling the Gulf.”)
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