More Caltech/MIT VTP Connections to Right Wing Think-tanks

[GettysbergII]

Here's my new entry at dailkos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/19/44333/049#2

Kudos to lawnorder 's excellent diary, Keith Olbermann: It's Berkeley vs Caltech http://dailykos.com/story/2004/11/18/1859/7077

And thanks, lawnorder, for making reference to my own diatribe against the the November 11, 2004 Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project (VTP) report entitled Voting Machines and the Underestimate of the Bush Vote" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/14/03617/399

There are three associations connected with the Caltech/MIT VTP that I find unsavory.

1. MIT political scientists Charles Stewart and Stephen Ansolabehere both received Fellowships at the rabidly right wing Hoover Institution freeper factory, funded by just about every rich wingnut foundation in existence.

2. Caltech political scientists Ramon Michael Alvarez and Jonathan N. Katz received John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellowships. The Olin Foundation spends millions a year to promote conservative programs in the country's most prestigious colleges.

3)David Baltimore is a member of the powerful and mysterious Council on Foreign Relations

Now grab your tin-foil hats, we're going for a ride!

[lefador]

1. Newsflash...

It so happens that Caltech and MIT have, gasp, a diverse faculty. So does Berkeley.

Jeez, Chomsky is a professor at MIT, so I fail to see your point.

[GettysbergII]

2. Try to keep up to speed on what you post about

The post was about the political scientists involved in the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project. The rest of the faculties of both schools having nothing to do with my post.