Digital BW, The Print

Editor P.O.V. Image Service wrote:

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Feynmann was only doing what he always did so well - teach with a flare 
for the dramatic. The shattering of the frozen O ring was the type of 
thing he did so well to drive home physics to his students. That flare 
is what made him not only the greatest modern day physicists but also 
the greatest teacher of physics.  

Truman

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> Agreed 100%!
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> I added Challenger knowing that story quite well..
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> The story you so nicely told for me was  EXACTLY why Challenegr was
> included on the list.. Feynmann's guts and moxie on  that panel serve as
> a sign of how far one has to go to get a blue ribbon panel to act like a
> truly independent advisory group instead of a sycophantic organization
> of rubber stamping toadies..
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> A blue ribbon panel can work, but you have to have someone brave,
> independent, and knowledgeable acknowledged as a group/panel leader
> (unofficially - int need not be the chairperson) to make sure it does
> more than  trumpet the current party line..
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> I don't think anyone with a vested interest in a political outcome to
> the inquiry was likely to do what Feynmann did..  Similarly, when people
> on any panel have a vested interest in certain outcomes (maintiaining a
> market for profiles, or avoiding responsibility for a bad engineering
> choice) don't expect them to leave those vested interests at the door to
> the hearing room..
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> Does anyone know if there was a single expert on EPSON's panel who had
> publicly criticized earlier EPSON marketing choices?  If not, don't
> expect true objectivity..  Instead, expect groupthink..
>
> Don't misinterpret me either..  I'm saying you need honest critics, not
> that the panel needs to be even mostly critics.. Market/focus segments
> with a vested interest in the outcome need to be included as well, to
> make sure the spectrum of opinions and interests are represented..
> Usually, the panel is carefully selected to look objective while wtill
> ensuring that certain results/findings are certain.
>
> What happens when there is NO honest information broker?  Just what we
> saw economically when you allow banks that are investing in a
> corporation to sell stock in that corporation and one-in-the-same-time
> provide "objective analysts" of stocks to news outlets.  There were
> reasons for erecting a Chinee wall between brokers and bankers or
> between auditors and consultants...  Similarly, if you want true
> objectivity on a panel, you have to include some of the critics..
> Nothing is more basicto the operation of a good independent panel.
> That's why fields as varied and interrelated as  marketing, sociologr,
> polticial science, finance, or and psychology cite this honest brokering
> of information and a willingness in some panel members to differ from
> the accepted view as essential elements to effective group dynamics and
> forum operation..
>
> Keith
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