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Hi Robert, thanks so much for anittdeng the screening. I had a great time in Hawaii.Doing a film that involved my family had advantages and disadvantages. A big plus is the access. Because my brother is the Principal Investigator on BLAST and invited me to do the movie, I had extraordinary access to the experiment. As a result I was in a unique position to tell this story, and part of my intent was to reveal the risky, haphazard, real life of the scientific process that we had not seen before.On the other hand, my access as a family member could create tension as well. Mark is my younger brother, but on the experiment he's the boss, so I had to get used to deferring to his authority. There were times when my access could be interfering and I had to be careful about overstepping boundaries as the boss's brother.That included bringing the camera along during family events. I believe part of what makes BLAST! unique is how the movie reveals the private life of a scientist, and how a scientist's work can cause hardships for his or her family. This is something that's rarely, if ever been depicted. My access to my own family allowed me to convey that. However, after awhile Mark's wife asked me a few times to leave the camera at home rather than bring it on family visits. So again I had to be careful not to let my natural access go too far.
By: | Jul 21, 2012 | Report Comment
Tallbloke's role seemed to be one of hlnipeg the organizers decide who to invite, presumably because he's involved in the blogscience wars .What about another possibility: Someone of the organisation committee sent Tallbloke a private mail about the “Gavin and the science is settled” thing and tried to prove his opinion with the cited part of the mail. In order to hide this tallbloke was made afterwards to a member of the organisation committee.I kinda doubt it. My guess is it was simple incompetence, something like one of the organizers replying to an e-mail sent to the organizing committee that had the text of Gavin's note attached, and in widening discussion (maybe something like OK, Gavin's not coming, any ideas as to who to invite instead? ), cc'ing Tallbloke and others who were hlnipeg create the invitation list, while forgetting to remove the attached note (or not imagining that Tallbloke would go waving it around in public while drinking beer, therefore seeing no harm).No need to invoke malice for this part of the story.The follow-on bit tallbloke revealing the e-mail to McI, Pearce, and Ross McKittrick was malicious, but I suspect the beginning of the story was innocent. Perhaps the organizing committee didn't understand they were dealing with such a group of a**holes
By: | Jul 09, 2012 | Report Comment
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