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Busby’s CV exposed junksciencewatch.wordpress.com

Although superficially impressive to the gullible and the naive, his CV conveys a facade of scientific respectability that is built on sand. Here are some key points:

(1) BSc Chemistry (London), PhD Chemical Physics (Kent). Failed to complete his first PhD project – an early indication of his intellectual shortcomings.

(2) Glorified laboratory assistant for a few years.

(3) Dropped out to pursue a ‘life of adventure’ on the ocean wave – why bother getting a real job when millions of taxpayers will pay for education, health services, etc?

(4) Self-appointed "scientific consultant", "writer", and director of "green audit".

(5) Self-described government "expert" – in fact, Busby got himself invited on to the CERRIE committee by Michael Meacher MP to represent a tiny minority view (equivalent to flat-earthers) shared by virtually no scientists with any credible scientific record. Apparently, it was government policy to be as inclusive as possible, even if that meant including people with no talent beyond self-promotion. Richard Bramhall, Busby’s sycophantic second lieutenant and former professional musician, was also invited on to CERRIE to represent the low level radiation campaign, even though this is effectively the same organisation as "green audit".

(6) Honorary Fellow in Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Liverpool University. As an aside, it appears that this may have been set up for him by his friend Vyvyan Howard. Howard was a colleague of the notorious Dutch pathologist, Dick van Velzen (famous for taking and retaining body parts without parental consent), and co-authored at least 25 papers with him. Howard now appears to have been exiled to the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland. Curiously, Busby’s name does not get a mention among the list of honorary staff on the website of the Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Liverpool University, and when you ‘phone the Department, nobody seems to have heard of him! Despite this, Busby still claims an affiliation to Liverpool University. You’d think after the Alder Hey scandal, Liverpool University might be careful not to appoint people with a cavalier attitude to research ethics.

(7) More recently, visiting professor at (yes – you’ve guessed it!) the University of Ulster, Coleraine! I wonder who set that up for him? To be honest, I hadn’t heard of this institution either, but with honorary appointments like this, they seem intent on building a reputation as a centre of mediocrity. For an environmentalist, with all his travel to Coleraine and European cities, Busby must have one hell of a carbon footprint, but then with these guys its always do as I say, not as I do.
(8) Member of the editorial board of the grandiosely named, web-only "journal", European Journal of Biology and Bioelectromagnetics. In fact, this "journal" is not listed among official catalogues of scientific periodicals and so has equivalent status to the Beano! Anyone can set up an online-only journal and appoint themselves to the editorial board. After just six issues, the "journal" appears to have died, but not before Busby managed to publish eight allegedly peer-reviewed papers in it! Peer-reviewed by morons, obviously.

(9) Describes himself as an epidemiologist, but has had no formal training in epidemiology or statistics, or if he has, he should definitely ask for his money back! See further down for examples of his inability to perform basic arithmetic (kind of a prerequisite for this field of science, I would have thought).

(10) Superficially impressive list of publications, but

- hardly any are peer-reviewed.

- the original articles that are peer-reviewed are placed in journals with zero or negligible impact factors, and most have been criticised beyond recovery - perhaps he should re-name his organisation the "low level impact campaign".

- some of the ones he tries to pass off as peer-reviewed papers are simply letters to the editors of journals – usually these do not go for external peer-review and attract much lower status in the scientific world.

- the overwhelming majority of his "publications" are pretentiously titled "occasional papers" which are plainly not peer-reviewed, and have repeatedly been shown to be terminally flawed, third-rate attempts at "scientific research".

(11) Compared to some of the high-profile scientists he criticises, Busby’s CV is actually pitiful – intellectually he is way out of his league. In the real world of science, most people haven’t heard of him, and anyone who has regards him as a joke. But without a doubt, he is cunning and politically astute.

(12) "Expert" witness for hire. Incredible as it may seem, Busby has manufactured a career for himself as an "expert" witness. Basically, the more controversy he can stir up, the more he stands to earn in expensive court cases. Let’s see just how well the "expert" evidence of Busby stands up to scrutiny. A recent inquest into the tragic premature death of Gulf War veteran, Stuart Dyson, at the age of 39 was reported in the Daily Telegraph:
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@ArtNuke...Depleted Uranium in shells is not a good idea, nor is the the fact that depending on what is going on with Yemen, we are dropping them on at least three Muslim nations. I believe that the soldiers aren't permitted to sit with their testicles directly atop the boxes that carry them, and as someone with a profoundly special needs daughter, I am very slow to blow off apparent increases in that sort of thing in both Fallujah, and Belarus, and however anecdotal, in the Gaza Strip. (Or Vancouver, for that matter.)

@elainekirk Esp. since the seawater intake pipes got silted up in the tsunami and they admit that 500 tonnes of waater is leaking into the basements from cracks in the walls and pipes. I'm sure that ground water isn't exactly distilled

is it a reasonable assumption that most of the current release radiation equals the amount being produced if the level is not declining? Has anybody tried to map this on a chart?

Holy smokes, this thing is huge. It's worth an entire Nova special. Shows new dorms, lunchroom, store, improved food, walls going up around 1, how they're going to use a crane to remove wreckage from #3, put grout around torus room, etc. Shows mess in truck entrance to #3 in before shot. Still no sign of fuel platform #3, or pictures of what fell through turbine building roof to make the fuel-platform sized hole.
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@elainekirk take a look at what the man has published and who he has published it for... Falluja.. Lebanon.. Gaza .. Kosovo... Honestly, is it hard to figure out what people this man is really working for? And they are not good guys.