So Brian Cowan has appointed Peter Clinch as an advisor according to the Irish Times ( for goodness sake would someone teach their subeditors how to count, there is a difference between 3 and 7, where I eventually found the article, €2 for innumerate babbling). Let’s hope it is not one well intentioned person appointing another. Peter considers him self very good technically, looked up his CV and couldn’t find any science credentials, let’s hope he did chemistry in the leaving.
The appointment of academics especially economic academics worries me. They are in general not used to working with live economic data. Also it brings back uneasy memories of Garret the Good who after running the country for many years and at the tender immature age of sixty something lost his shirt on the GPA floatation.
Sunday, June 22, 2008
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He IS a professor of regional and urban planning. Having studied the subject myself for a couple of years, I'd feel there's a fair exposure to science (or at least scientific methods) in the course.
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