TMT - Contested Case Hearing Status - Hilo

[galileo]

New post - The TMT Contested Case Winds Down
http://darkerview.com/wordpress/?p=21222#more-21222

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Among the endless hours of testimony there have been occasional moments of fireworks. We have heard wild theories, mangled science, inexcusable ignorance, evidence of unemployment claims fraud, and several very likely incidents of outright perjury by telescope opponents.

Along the way several of the opponents that I had respected have trashed that respect. Try as I might I just have issues with their tactics, their behaviour on and off the stand, their continued use of alternative facts.

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He continues with a very eloquent and insightful description:

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It is a subculture within the community, a subculture that has become so steeped in a mythical past, a re-created Hawaiian religion that blends the old traditional ways, a good helping of modern new age mysticism, and a notable element of nationalism. It is this distorted idealism that leads the opposition to astronomy upon Mauna Kea.

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