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NNadir

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2. Yeah, I know. Benny, the "energy expert" has some kind of social science Ph.D.. I forget in exactly what.
Fri Nov 21, 2025, 10:39 PM
Friday

There are a plethora of strange journals out in the world; they come and go.

If one wants to hear oneself talk, one can find a place to publish it.

Benny, as noted, has published in Science, although I'm not impressed at all with what he published. It rang, as does most of what he writes, of selective attention, crocodile tears, and a certain level of obliviousness.

He apparently wins some kinds of awards as well. Of course, as Amory Lovins established in the 1970's, you can win awards for saying dumb, even pernicious things. You can even become famous for doing so.

Afterall, we live in the age of the apogee of such things: Witness the orange pedophile in the White House. Benny and Amory, to my mind, have become small time by comparison.

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