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2016-04-27 Economy

Why Are They Hiding The Good News About Fracking?

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Posted by Steve White 2016-04-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 It is only 'good news' when it's your lease, your drilling company, or your well servicing firm.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-04-27 01:36|| 2016-04-27 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 But that a university would so flagrantly put politics before science is deeply troubling.

‏ROFLMAO

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-27 05:06|| 2016-04-27 05:06|| Front Page Top

#3 And you are shocked that in todays America a university would suppress a research paper that provides results that it considers politically incorrect. I'm not.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2016-04-27 06:24|| 2016-04-27 06:24|| Front Page Top

#4 "...a public research university boasting a top-100 geology program." Yeah,like 99th of 100. The U. of C is a glorified junior college.

Posted by Black Charlie Gloluque7156 2016-04-27 09:44|| 2016-04-27 09:44|| Front Page Top

#5 The U. of C is a glorified junior college.

Do you have a basis for that statement? The trailing daughters chose to do their undergraduate work there, though as National Merit Scholars they had many other opportunities.

Separately, I consulted with Mr. Wife on this one, because he negotiates university research contracts as part of his responsibilities, and he pointed out several things:

First of all, a research contract might forbid publication of the results, if the sponsor wants exclusivity. If that is the case, the scientists cannot discuss the results in a public forum or publish the results, because the data belongs to the sponsor, not the university, the researcher, or the public. The sponsor bought it, just like we might buy a book or gasoline for the car.

But Professor Townsend-Small has in fact been talking about this study (I googled it). Among others, in February she made a presentation summarizing the research and their findings to a Carroll [County] Concerned Citizens meeting, which subsequently posted PDFs of the presentation and a master's thesis written about the study. (See here for links to both in the right-hand column). There is also apparently a video of the presentation, as mentioned in an article about it all here.

Still, there's been no announcement of formal publication of the results. It could be, according to Mr. Wife, that the publication is in process, either being written up or undergoing the usual back and forth with the journal editors in response to peer review, which often takes months, and then the wait to actually get a place on the journal's pages. Or it could be that no journals were interested in publishing the study. Or, though useful as a teaching tool on how to conduct geologic research, the study results are not strong enough or important enough to be worth writing up. The EPA concluded from their own studies that fracking does not impact groundwater according to a draft circulated almost a year ago, so the UC results are not exactly groundbreaking.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-04-27 11:23|| 2016-04-27 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 UMass- Boston is a glorified community college. I don't know if I could say the same about U. of Cincinnati.

Posted by Raj 2016-04-27 13:12|| 2016-04-27 13:12|| Front Page Top

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