Comments on JUNK: FAQs: is it safe?

awesome work, gentlemen! you grabbed my imaginatio...

2008-08-28T06:12:00.000-07:00

awesome work, gentlemen! you grabbed my imagination, and that is the hardest thing to do in this age of dazzling media nonsense and manufactured distractions! thank you for spotlighting both the problem and solutions. with more people like you, the environmental movement will gain momentum and perhaps save more than a few species, and ourselves. i'm not a person who's given to hyperbole, either, so don't take these as casual words. thank you again for your hard work and spirit!

how much did that cessna run you?

2008-08-21T14:39:00.000-07:00

how much did that cessna run you?

Fair winds and calm following seas guys!!

2008-08-18T11:07:00.000-07:00

Fair winds and calm following seas guys!!

I love love love what you guys are doing. When you...

2008-08-15T17:42:00.000-07:00

I love love love what you guys are doing.

When you said,
"James Baker, former Secretary of State, the man that sent me to war, said recently, "We had a written policy that we would go to war to defend secure access to the energy reserves of the Persian Gulf." THIS IS NOT WHY I CHOSE TO SERVE MY COUNTRY!"
I wanted to reach out and kiss you!

If only we could get everyone to understand this. That is so well stated.

Keep it up. You have my total support. I just bought your book, and will keep watching your blog. Loved your link up with Roz. Very cool.

Thanks for going out there and doing this!

Robert G. Williscroft seems to be a fraud. On his ...

2008-08-15T11:40:00.000-07:00

Robert G. Williscroft seems to be a fraud. On his own web site he says he received a "M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Engineering from California Coast University in 1981 and 1983, respectively." Checking the California Coast University website reveals that they don't offer any degree in Engineering and do not offer Ph.D. degrees. Furthermore, Dissertation Abstracts International (which publishes abstracts of dissertations from "virtually all accredited institutions in North America that award doctoral degrees") does not show that Mr. Williscroft completed a dissertaion at an accredited institution.

Mr. Williscroft seems to have few scientific credentials and none in the area of environmental sciences.
Since 1980 he has only one peer reviewed scientific paper and that one is unrelated to pollution, global warming and the other issues he coments about, (his publication is, Brook I, Coolbaugh JC, Williscroft RG (1982). Effect Of Diving And Diving Hoods On The Bacterial-Flora Of The External Ear Canal And Skin. Journal Of Clinical Microbiology , 15(5), 855-859.)

He seems to have an agenda of his own and in the title of his book he claims to be "Debunking Expert's Lies" -- but he seems to have a few of his own that need debunking.

quite an interesting project you have there.hope y...

2008-07-27T04:05:00.000-07:00

quite an interesting project you have there.

hope you make it! lol

are you doing this in may/june 2009?

Dear Dr. Robert, I detect a case of "sour grapes."...

2008-06-30T11:51:00.000-07:00

Dear Dr. Robert,
I detect a case of "sour grapes."
You say we should study the issue.
These guys are studying the issue, they have put them selves in the middle of the famous pacific plastic soup. Is it urgent when a turtle swallows the plastics, or whale eats the plastic, or a bird gets caught in the gill nets, and we don't see it?
The simple answer, is animals are dying from our plastic litter, but obviously, you don't think it is urgent when ocean animals die.
Grandstanding, I don't think so, these men are putting themselves on the line to make a point,
I detect political bias in your statements, that are prone to big business interests.
What have you done today Dr. Robert, except to promote your book?
Bob

New York Times article.

2008-06-22T22:51:00.000-07:00

New York Times article.

Thank you for checking in Robert. You raise some i...

2008-06-22T22:50:00.000-07:00

Thank you for checking in Robert. You raise some interesting points that we will address very soon.

Meantime, check out todays New York Times article on the topic, featuring the founder of our organization Captain Charles Moore.

You speak of "urgent action," but you have not rea...

2008-06-21T09:19:00.000-07:00

You speak of "urgent action," but you have not really defined the problem. In the first place, "urgent action" should be reserved for "urgent problems," like a an imminent hurricane or a flood crest moving down a river. I'm not saying plastic trash in the ocean isn't a problem – I simply don't know enough about it to evaluate the problem, and I suspect neither do you. It seems to me that your energy would be more productive applied to a thorough study of the "problem," to determine if it really is potentially serious. If it turns out to be something we need to be concerned about, then we have plenty of time to devise an appropriate solution without taking draconian steps that will impact our economy and the livelihoods of millions of people.

I detect in your comments more than a little political bias, and I suspect that your efforts are at least as much directed at political grandstanding as they are toward solving the plastic-junk-at-sea problem.

Robert G. Williscroft, PhD
Author of "The Chicken Little Agenda"