Please see the immediately previous entry for the beginning of this story:

After the boring presentation about the DOE's upcoming budget cuts, which basically is going to give DOE a convenient excuse for not being able to get much "clean-up" done at the site, the research dude, Mr Ted Grossardt (who uses "Dr." as a title), one of the three listed leaders of this research on it's website, http://www.uky.edu/krcee/project23.html (and who was present at my "mugging") got up to make his presentation about the preliminary findings.

I will say this about their research. They sure know how to spend money. And let's not forget, this money came from one of those infamous "earmarks" by non-other than now "earmark" killer U.S. Sen. Minority leader Mitch McConnell. This is public money - not private money - funnelled through DOE.

This so-called research team has equipment up the wazoo. They have computers, software, recording devices, and these remote controls that they can hand out to people and have them push buttons with numbers that purportedly signify their level of support or opposition to scenarios presented by the "researchers."

Their fancy computers and software supposedly then average them all out and come up with some kind of average level of support or opposition to the scenarios by that particular group of individuals.

This is what they did with a handful of people - mostly handpicked - from our region. Oh, they took that information and created these colorful graphs, charts, and even 3-D images that supposedly indicated how these groups felt about the particular scenarios that they proposed. God only knows how many hours, paid for by the public, went into these graphics.

The problems are, though, that the results are totally dependent on what the scenarios are that you are proposing. If they propose that you get shot by a rifle or a pistol, you can give your preference and they claim they could measure the preferences of a group to those two scenarios, but in the end, you are still going to get shot.

With this particular "study," not only are the source of the creation of the scenarios being kept secret, but they are all very narrow and are obviously designed to lead to a certain result.

But a bigger problem which renders the study totally scientifically bogus is that their samples are way too small and not particularly random. Even the study leader Ormslee sent an email out to his "secret" committee admitting that the samples were too small. Grossardt admitted as much in his presentation.

After he finished, they had a public comment period. I was second in line, and when I got my turn, I got up and I told my story about how I went to their meeting in May, 2010, participated in good faith, was physically confronted, had the police called on me, lied to about them sending me the "visualizations," and how they still were keeping the names of the advisory committee that created the scenarios secret and would not release the video tapes of the meeting which I attended.

At one point, the chair of the CAB tried to cut me off, but I curtly told her that I was going to finish, and I did. The last point I made was that according to the University of Kentucky's office of research integrity, the purpose of the research related to how the researchers used the visualizations, and that saying that they were "measuring" the public's preferences to the future use of the gaseous diffusion plant site was just an excuse to experiment with these computerized images.

I believe that this is a DOE funded study of how they can manipulate "public opinion." It is a mind control experiment in the guise of a scientific study. They are seeing if they can create these computerized images of the future and then get people to push certain buttons on their remote controls right after looking at these images.

I ended my statement by saying that DOE had experimented on the Paducah community before, which they have. Back when Hazel O'Leary was Sec. of Energy under Pres. Clinton, before 911, there was a push to open up the DOE and lots of information was released about things that DOE had done in the past. Among other things they had done, revealed by documents obtained by the Louisville Courier Journal, they had purposefully released UF6 gas on our region to see what it would do in the environment, among other things. I pointed out to the CAB that once again DOE is experimenting on our community.

I went back to my seat to pick up my laptop and head out, but by then, another speaker had taken the mic. Out of respect, I sat and listened to him make his statement, and I left.

As I drove home, I thought, what an absurdity that this ridiculous, meaningless, non-transparent, manipulative so-called "study" is getting well funded while actual on-the-ground clean-up of the environment is being significantly cut. But that's DOE for you. It shows what their real priorities are.